Tag: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton