Men quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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"The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God."
"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life."
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
"Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice."
"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."
"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons."
"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."
"The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows; and that all things are but aspects of one thing; a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God? 'No,' said Father Brown."
"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
"Materialists and madmen never have doubts."