Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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