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There are no words to express ...

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We are to regard existence as ...

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We do not need to get good law...

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are no uninteresting thi...

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If seeds in the black earth ca...

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Dear Sir: Regarding your artic...

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

By a curious confusion, many m...

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I believe in getting into hot ...

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The center of every man's exis...

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I am not absentminded. It is t...

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Only man can be absurd: for on...

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

People talk of the pathos and ...

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Religious liberty might be sup...

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is more simplicity in th...

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To complain that I could only ...

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There are a great many good pe...

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man's minor actions and arra...

A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a b

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Do not, I beseech you be troub...

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Jokes are generally honest. Co...

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The past is democratic, becaus...

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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