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Whole Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as…
- The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
- 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;…
- 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…
- It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight…
- The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the…
- The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
- The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
- 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…
- The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the…
- The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much…
- ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most…
- I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when…
- Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything…
- The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
- Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world…
- In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do…
- For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
- Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
- The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than…
- Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men…
- ...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like…
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