All Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
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Education
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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Imagination
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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