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I believe what really happens ...

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The person who is really in re...

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

All the exaggerations are righ...

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We have had no good comic oper...

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When learned men begin to use ...

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Aesthetes never do anything bu...

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The aesthete aims at harmony r...

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Reason is always a kind of bru...

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When giving treats to friends ...

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I agree with the realistic Iri...

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Progress is a comparative of w...

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

My attitude toward progress ha...

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

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

The modern world is a crowd of...

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Comforts that were rare among ...

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

None of the modern machines, n...

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I still hold. . .that the subu...

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The whole curse of the last ce...

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

To hurry through one's leisure...

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

This is the age in which thin ...

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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