Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Courageous

“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”

Men Order Courage

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.”

People Two Educational

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Wise

“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”

Life Hate

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Philosophical

“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”

Believe Military

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Wise

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”

Teacher Teaching Retirement

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Funny

“I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.”

Cities Parks

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Philosophical

“Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.”

Use Should

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Spiritual

“Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.”

Next Essentials Cleanliness

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Creative

“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.”

Imagination Strange Function

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Funny

“Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.”

Men Military Army

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Funny

“No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.”

Names Beer Cider

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Philosophical

“A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.”

Art Lines Triumph

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