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Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes

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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)
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