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A man cannot have the energy t...

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The original quality in any ma...

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The diseased pride [of artisti...

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Romance is the combination of ...

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Powerful men who have powerful...

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The modern world... has no not...

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Modern toleration is really a ...

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If I think the universe is tri...

If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man cannot be wise enough to...

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

They have invented a phrase, a...

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The human race, to which so ma...

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I have argued with him on almo...

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To say that a man is an ideali...

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Against a dark sky all flowers...

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Poets do not go mad; but chess...

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

With every step of our lives w...

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

[Fairy tales] make rivers run ...

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

In the glad old days, before t...

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The man who lives in a small c...

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Free verse is like free love; ...

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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