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Certain Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
- I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little…
- It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we…
- Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
- I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that…
- The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
- But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which…
- When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.
- Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never…
- I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly…
- 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…
- We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain…
- With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
- There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
- It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone…
- 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…
- Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
- There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.…
- We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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