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Tradition means giving votes ...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

White... is not a mere absenc...

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The fatal metaphor of progres...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The trouble with always tryin...

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People generally quarrel beca...

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

One sees great things from th...

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Lying in bed would be an alto...

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The whole object of travel is...

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

'My country, right or wrong' ...

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The only way of catching a tr...

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The aim of life is appreciati...

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Man does not live by soap alo...

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I would maintain that thanks ...

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To be clever enough to get al...

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The object of a New Year is n...

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Do not free a camel of the bu...

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man who says that no patrio...

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If you do not understand a ma...

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Happy is he who still loves s...

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Men feel that cruelty to the ...

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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