Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

1.3K quotes · Writer, Journalist

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Funny

“I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.”

Believe Found Preaching

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.”

Men Children Destiny

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Wise

“Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.”

Wall Discipline

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Grateful

“Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.”

Song Literature

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Melancholic

“Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses”

Inspiration Joy Grief

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Funny

“humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle”

Doors Handle

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Courageous

“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”

Mean Doe

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Adventurous

“The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.”

Law Adventure Steps

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Spiritual

“In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.”

Men Mad Logic

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Angry

“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.”

Men Heart Touching

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Philosophical

“Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.”

Teacher Teaching Educational

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Funny

“The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.”

Car Block Racing

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