Gilbert Keith Chesterton
England
29 May 1874 // 14 Jun 1936
Writer
29 May 1874 // 14 Jun 1936
Writer
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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."
Essays
Essays