Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason”

Reason Lost Lost Everything

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?”

World Civilization Failure

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Angry

“Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.”

Thinking Opposites Serious

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Grateful

“Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.”

Feet Pride Humility

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Philosophical

“And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.”

Mind Might Judging

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Philosophical

“I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.”

Suffering Culture Our Society

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Angry

“Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?”

Men Fruit Thieves

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Optimistic

“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.”

Adventure Encounters Flags

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Sad

“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”

Men War Song

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Angry

“'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'”

Country Mother Patriotic

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Creative

“Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.”

Men Soul Friendship

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Wise

“Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.”

Self Government Culture

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