Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Wise

“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”

Men Teaching Education

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

Art Reality Philosophy

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Funny

“No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.”

Animal Drinking

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Melancholic

“Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.”

Civilization Decay

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Philosophical

“It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.”

World Media News

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Funny

“[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.”

Political Numbers Pay

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Adventurous

“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”

Inspirational Life

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Funny

“A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.”

Long Amusement

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Courageous

“The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.”

Fighting Battle Glimpse

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Philosophical

“In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.”

World Ridiculous Mask

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Hopeful

“We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.”

Soul Pleasure Worthy

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Philosophical

“I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.”

Men One Day Strange

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