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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: life, passion, war
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
tags: cheese, poetry
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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity
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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: books, literature, on-fiction
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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination
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“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit
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“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
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“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: travel
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: love-loss
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“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity
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“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: enemies, love, neighbors
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“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
tags: humor, leibniz, religion, watchmaker
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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion
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“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: inspirational-humor
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“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, love
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“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: gullibility
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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
tags: authors, books, writing
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives
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“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: free-speech
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“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: femininism, inspirational, lies
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“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics: The Annotated
tags: alcohol, drinking, happy
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“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.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: ethics, firearms
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“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
tags: art, morality
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“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: freedom-of-religion, religion
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“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: creation-science, evolution, evolutionary-process, science
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“Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
― G.K. Chesterton
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“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: literature, novels, reading
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