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G K Chesterton
When you have...
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us...
What people call...
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental...
Youth is the...
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of...
Earth will grow...
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it,
And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
The honest poor...
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
The disadvantage of...
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of...
When we really...
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very...
Facts as facts...
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
The most dangerous...
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists...
If our caricaturists...
If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their...
Nothing is poetical...
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not...
A new philosophy...
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Source:...
I do not...
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...
Variability is one...
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one...
If you do...
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will...
The Museum is...
The Museum is not meant for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the...
Man is an...
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the...
The man who...
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Man does not...
Man does not live by soap alone, and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of...
We are justified...
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good...