Conclusion Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.”

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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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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…

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

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