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Many clever men like you have...

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The men of the East may spell...

The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Powerful men who have powerfu...

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The theory of free speech, th...

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If Christianity should happen...

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Misers get up early in the mo...

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

...It's natural to believe in...

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Youth is always too serious, ...

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Laughter has something in it ...

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The new school of art and tho...

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Only friendliness produces fr...

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The determining bulk of Scotc...

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It never occurred to him to b...

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Truth, of course, must of nec...

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

La mejor prueba de la cultura...

La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The old assumption of the app...

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Do not look at the faces in t...

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When fishes flew and forests ...

When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The great misfortune of the m...

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

In our time the blasphemies a...

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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