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The modern world has far too ...

The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The average woman is at the h...

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

What a glorious garden of won...

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

He walked by instinct along o...

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To be simple is the best thin...

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Precisely because our politic...

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is really not so repulsive...

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Christianity satisfies sudden...

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Literature and fiction are tw...

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

One can no more have a privat...

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The grinding power of the pla...

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Obviously if any actions, eve...

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Adventure is the champagne of...

Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Life is not an illogicality; ...

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I would not say that old men ...

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Children feel the whiteness o...

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I have investigated the dust-...

I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

What is education? Properly s...

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

All that we call spirit and a...

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Religious and philosophical b...

Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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