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The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind.

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Faith, Real, Inspiration
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Bed, Half, Way

There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Two, People

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leadership, Cheer, Party

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Time, Sleep

I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Moving, Butterfly
"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Two, Giving

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, People, Democracy

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Country, Book, Valuable

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Mean, Awful
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reading, Garden, Light

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Running, Women, Half

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women, Average, Order

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Memories, Book, Thinking

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Book, Buddhism, Giving
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

Art is the signature of man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Men, Signatures
"The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Part I: On the Creature Called Man, 1925.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Evil, Levels
"The Flying Stars: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Horse, Devil, Four
1900 'The Donkey'.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Simple, Sweat, Simplicity

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spiritual, Sex, Fire

Humility is the mother of giants.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mother, Humility, Giants
"The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

There are no new ideas about female education.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ideas, Annoying, New Ideas
"What's Wrong with the World". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Part Four: Education: Or the Mistake About the Child, Ch. 14: Folly and Female Education, 1910.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thinking, Civilization, Supposing That

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Long, Heaven

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Truism, Real Courage
"G.F. Watts". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1904.

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