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Come Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who…
- Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
- Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
- There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with…
- We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world…
- [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…
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences…
- He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It…
- When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only…
- Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
- Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
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