By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

G.K. Chesterton


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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

G.K. Chesterton


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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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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

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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

G.K. Chesterton

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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


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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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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

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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

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

G.K. Chesterton


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