Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 9

• Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

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  Rags, Hot, Christianity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

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  Children, Enough, Dare

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

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  Men, Great Men, Knows

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• Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

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  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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  Complaining, Rich, Poor

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• Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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  Mean, Doe, Too Much

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• Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

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  Truth, Lying, Dogma

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• A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

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  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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• Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

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  Drinking, Laughing, Would Be

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

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• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

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• Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

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  Democracy, Progress, Majority

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• The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

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  Different, Culture, Heritage

  "Holding on to Romanticism". "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, May 2, 1931.

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• The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

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  Believe, Loss, Political

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• There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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  Lying, Men, Creative

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• There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

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  Mind, Boring, Subjects

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• It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

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  Happiness, Light, Easy

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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  Country, Scum Of The Earth, Rich

  'The Flying Inn' (1914) ch. 15

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• There are some desires that are not desirable.

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  Desire, Morality, Desirable

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

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  Hard Work, Humility, Men

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• Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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  Funny, Business, Humor

  "The style guide editor on ... peer pressure and using people's proper names" by David Marsh, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

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  Reformers

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• I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

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  Funny, Spiritual, Dog

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• In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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  Writing, Want, Matter

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• Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

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  Lying, Tired, Blessing

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, VIII: The End of the World, 1925.

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• Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

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  Pain, Doe, Pleasure

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