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Made Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour,…
- The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
- What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail…
- Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.
- The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was…
- The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might…
- For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made…
- Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
- According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not…
- The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the…
- We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole…
- The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
- Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.
- The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and…
- It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
- I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.
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