Tag: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Gilbert K. Chesterton