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Really Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
- Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf;…
- 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…
- The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people…
- 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…
- 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…
- . . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it…
- When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
- The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
- A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
- A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
- When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really…
- 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.
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