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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men… — 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is… — C.S. Lewis
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were… — Clarence Darrow
You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary… — Ayn Rand
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for… — Carlos Castaneda
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is. — Seneca the Younger

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