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Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes

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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn’t  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman... is a despot; the average man is a serf  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Teach to the young, men’s enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Every work of art has one indispensable mark... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes) The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded  (Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes)
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