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New Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
- Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
- The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any…
- Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.…
- The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
- 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…
- Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable…
- I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
- 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…
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- There are no new ideas.
- I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under…
- 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…
- It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that…
- The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was…
- Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
- On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying…
- Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me…
- Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that…
- 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…
- the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
- New roads; new ruts.
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- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
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- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
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