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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers...
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of...
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Source: In...
I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the...
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than...
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what...
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no...
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of...
New roads: new ruts.
Source: Attrib.
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936),...
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep...
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of...
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he...
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact...
The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted...
If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the...
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our...
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Source: Generally Speaking, ...
I will not call it my philosophy, for I did not make it. God and humanity made it, and it made...
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth,...
And they that rule in England,
In stately conclave met,
Alas, alas for England
They have no graves as...