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G K Chesterton
The whole object...
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a...
Those thinkers who...
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for...
An artist will...
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
Source: ``The Dagger with...
Compromise used to...
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that...
The average man...
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 perplexity of...
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in...
Brave men are...
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the...
THE UNIVERSE: The...
THE UNIVERSE: The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody.
Source:...
And Noah he...
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
`I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get...
There's no such...
There's no such thing as fighting on the winning side; one fights to find out which is the winning...
The chief object...
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
Source:...
The artistic temperament...
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having...
Art, like morality,...
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Source: Orthodoxy,...
One sees great...
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Source: The...
The way to...
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Source: In Correct...
A man can...
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
Source:
--...
Psychoanalysis is confession...
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Source:
-- G K Chesterton,...
The Christian ideal...
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left...
The word good...
The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards,...
Courage is almost...
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to...