Gilbert Keith Chesterton
England
29 May 1874 // 14 Jun 1936
Writer
29 May 1874 // 14 Jun 1936
Writer
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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching
A room without books is like a body without a soul
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice
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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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