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Back Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
- Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.…
- At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to…
- When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really…
- The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
- [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see…
- Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything…
- There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
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