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Called Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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…
- It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained…
- What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
- There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack…
- So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
- The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe…
- 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…
- I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd…
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- 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…
- 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…
- If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,…
- Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with…
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- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila