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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars? (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous. (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)
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The word ‘heresy’ not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word ‘orthodoxy’ not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
He may be mad, but there’s method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It’s what drives men mad, being methodical. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Not only does orthodox no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn’t believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. (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)
Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work. (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)
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one’s soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy. (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)