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The poet only asks to get his...

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is a good sign in a nation...

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A fad or heresy is the exalta...

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Modern science is necessarily...

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We talk of wild animals but m...

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The materialist is sure that ...

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

All true friendliness begins ...

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The man who kills a man kills...

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The comedy of man survives th...

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Here ends another day, during...

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If man is not the image of Go...

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A strange fanaticism fills ou...

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Truth must necessarily be str...

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is the main earthly busine...

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is nothing harder to le...

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The one stream of poetry whic...

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I have formed a very clear co...

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

From the standpoint of any sa...

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I do not believe that any hum...

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Man is always something worse...

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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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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