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Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes

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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory... we are all kings in exile  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
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