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The Frenchman works until he ...

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I said to him, "Shall I tell ...

I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I am going to hold a pistol t...

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

What was wonderful about chil...

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved book...

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

somehow one must love the wor...

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

She had never really listened...

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is a corollary to the c...

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Christianity got over the dif...

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

But whenever one meets modern...

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

of being strong and brave. Th...

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Men invent new ideals because...

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is no bigot like the at...

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The disadvantage of men not k...

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is the mark of our whole m...

It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The whole curse of the last c...

The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We can be almost certain of b...

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

War is not the best way of se...

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

With all that we hear of Amer...

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If prosperity is regarded as ...

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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