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May Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
- The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
- 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…
- There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory…
- What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my…
- No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was…
- There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it…
- Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
- The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is…
- ...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in…
- So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
- Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may…
- 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…
- This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he…
- 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…
- Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in…
- Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
- Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
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