Gilbert Keith Chesterton
England
29 May 1874 // 14 Jun 1936
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29 May 1874 // 14 Jun 1936
Writer
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see
The simplification of anything is always sensational
The present condition of fame is merely fashion
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them
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
The only defensible war is a war of defense
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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