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Two Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two…
- . . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better…
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
- These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are…
- 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…
- 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…
- The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is…
- There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the…
- There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack…
- There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one…
- Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
- Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can…
- A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic…
- It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds…
- Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
- It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
- If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we…
- They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever…
- There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice…
- There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists…
- In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
- There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It…
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