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The primary paradox of Christ...

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Every great literature has al...

Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The poetry of art is in behol...

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I think the oddest thing abou...

I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A crown of roses is also a cr...

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The lunatic is the man who li...

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 truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There cannot be a nation of m...

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are a good many fools w...

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Only men to whom the family i...

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I have argued with him on alm...

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Teach to the young, men's end...

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Take not thy thunder from us,...

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People decided that it was im...

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Comforts that were rare among...

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Most Americans are born drunk...

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Men in England are ruled, at ...

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The beautification of the wor...

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The thing that cannot be defi...

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The English are no nearer tha...

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Your next-door neighbor is no...

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....