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Cannot Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
- If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
- Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,…
- Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.
- He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
- There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations…
- The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;…
- Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher…
- You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
- A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask…
- Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
- Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can…
- God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
- 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…
- Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every…
- The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
- Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
- In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
- The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.
- The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure. — Mark Twain