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#1

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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#2

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

5006 likes

#3

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

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#4

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: love-loss

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#5

“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

1850 likes

#6

“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

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#7

“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

1536 likes

#8

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

1848 likes

#9

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#10

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#11

“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

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#12

“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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#13

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#14

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: travel

1657 likes

#16

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, reading

337 likes

#17

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

556 likes

#18

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#19

“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

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#20

“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: inspirational-humor

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#21

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#22

“The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#23

“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

1383 likes

#24

“If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?”
― G.K. Chesterton

267 likes

#25

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: country

310 likes

#26

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: golf

238 likes

#27

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton

376 likes

#28

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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#29

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: art, morality

749 likes

#30

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

tags: inspirational

564 likes

#31

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: imagination

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