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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on understanding
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"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on virtue   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on teacher   

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"A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on birds
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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 honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on poverty and the poor   

"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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on atheism   

"In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on publishing and publishers
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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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on reason
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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 dull enough to want it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on riches
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on science   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on stupidity
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"A yawn is a silent shout."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on bores and boredom
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"The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on virtue   

"The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on voting
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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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on wealth   

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn'"

Lewis, C. S. on difficulties
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"Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods."

Lewis, C. S. on faith
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on friends and friendship
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

Lewis, C. S. on giving
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"I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare."

Lewis, C. S. on giving
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Lewis, C. S. on happiness
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"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on courage
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"With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on convalescence   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on conflict
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"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on wonder
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"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on vulgarity
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"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on adversity
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on christians and christianity
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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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on cleverness   

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on committees and meetings   

"The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on complexity
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"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on compromise   

"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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