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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

British journalist, novelist and poet ['Father Brown', 'Orthodoxy', 'The Everlasting Man']

Nationality: British

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Type: Poet

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Birth: 1874-1936

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

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

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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown fo

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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

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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.

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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

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The mere brute pleasure of reading -the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.

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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.

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Your next-door neighbour is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.

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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

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

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But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice.''

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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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