Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 7

• Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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  Government, Abolish

  "Christendom in Dublin" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, (Ch. III), 1932.

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• Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

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  Men, Principles, Life Is

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• The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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  Certain

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

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  Long, God Love, One Love

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• What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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  Self, Criticism, Excess

  "Sidelights on New London and Newer New York : And Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1932.

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• Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

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  Government, Law, Madness

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• At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

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  Spiritual, Art, Brain

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• Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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  Modern, Authority, Accepting

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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  Drinking, Alcohol, Literature

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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  Morality, Modern, Strengthening

  "By What Definition is Gavin Newsom’s Sex Life 'Breaking News'?" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2007.

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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  Mean, Class, Giving

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

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  Divine Revelation, Revelations, Theologian

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• We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

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  Earthquakes, Sun, Wonder

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• The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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  Real, Men, Greatness

  1906 Charles Dickens, ch.1.

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• Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

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  Believe, People, Tolerance

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• Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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  Atheist, Optimism, Miracle

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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  Hope, Believe, Mean

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• Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Animal, Worship

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• Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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  Art, Lying, Long

  Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

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• It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

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  Mean, Justice, Charity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Passion makes every detail important.

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  Passion, Important, Details

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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  Mind, Literature, Mouths

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• The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

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  Thank You, Gratitude, Giving

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• When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

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  Men, Fists, Posture

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