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Another Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
- 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…
- What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
- These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are…
- Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to…
- What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
- The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
- There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
- Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour,…
- Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken…
- An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be…
- It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to…
- What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there…
- We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the…
- Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I…
- I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain…
- He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to…
- But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a…
- Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace…
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- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
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