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Being 'contented' ought to mea...

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

What affects men sharply about...

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The old restriction meant that...

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

the object of a new year is no...

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I will not call it my philosop...

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Paradox - Truth standing on he...

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The wise old fairy tales never...

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The objection to fairy stories...

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The madman is the man who has ...

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason...

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Materialists and madmen never ...

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The word good has many meaning...

The word good has many meanings...

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Joy, which was the small publi...

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People seem to fight about thi...

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The full potentialities of hum...

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Human anger is a higher thing ...

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Employers will give time to ea...

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man must be orthodox upon mo...

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The real pleasure-seeking is t...

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We can be almost certain of be...

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

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The disadvantage of men not kn...

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

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