G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: When you have...

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...

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G K Chesterton: What people call...

G K Chesterton: What people call...

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental...

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G K Chesterton: Youth is the...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: Earth will grow...

G K Chesterton: Earth will grow...

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it,
And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.


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G K Chesterton: The honest poor...

G K Chesterton: The honest poor...

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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G K Chesterton: The disadvantage of...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: When we really...

G K Chesterton: When we really...

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very...

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G K Chesterton: Facts as facts...

G K Chesterton: Facts as facts...

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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G K Chesterton: The most dangerous...

G K Chesterton: The most dangerous...

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists...

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G K Chesterton: If our caricaturists...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: Nothing is poetical...

G K Chesterton: Nothing is poetical...

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not...

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G K Chesterton: A new philosophy...

G K Chesterton: A new philosophy...

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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G K Chesterton: I do not...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: Variability is one...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: If you do...

G K Chesterton: If you do...

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will...

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G K Chesterton: The Museum is...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: Man is an...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: The man who...

G K Chesterton: The man who...

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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G K Chesterton: Man does not...

G K Chesterton: 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...

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G K Chesterton: We are justified...

G K Chesterton: We are justified...

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good...

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