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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
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 what you really trust (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Shouldn’t atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
... it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose... to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it’s something you ought to do yourself (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
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 dangerous (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)