G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: The whole object...

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...

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G K Chesterton: Those thinkers who...

G K Chesterton: Those thinkers who...

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for...

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G K Chesterton: An artist will...

G K Chesterton: An artist will...

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

Source: ``The Dagger with...

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G K Chesterton: Compromise used to...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: The average man...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: The perplexity of...

G K Chesterton: The perplexity of...

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in...

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G K Chesterton: Brave men are...

G K Chesterton: Brave men are...

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the...

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G K Chesterton: THE UNIVERSE: The...

G K Chesterton: THE UNIVERSE: The...

THE UNIVERSE: The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: And Noah he...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: There's no such...

G K Chesterton: There's no such...

There's no such thing as fighting on the winning side; one fights to find out which is the winning...

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G K Chesterton: The chief object...

G K Chesterton: The chief object...

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: The artistic temperament...

G K Chesterton: The artistic temperament...

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having...

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G K Chesterton: Art, like morality,...

G K Chesterton: Art, like morality,...

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Source: Orthodoxy,...

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G K Chesterton: One sees great...

G K Chesterton: One sees great...

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Source: The...

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G K Chesterton: The way to...

G K Chesterton: The way to...

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Source: In Correct...

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G K Chesterton: A man can...

G K Chesterton: A man can...

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

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G K Chesterton: Psychoanalysis is confession...

G K Chesterton: Psychoanalysis is confession...

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Source:
-- G K Chesterton,...

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G K Chesterton: The Christian ideal...

G K Chesterton: The Christian ideal...

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left...

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G K Chesterton: The word good...

G K Chesterton: 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,...

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G K Chesterton: Courage is almost...

G K Chesterton: Courage is almost...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to...

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