Seth Messenger : Gilbert Keith Chesterton's quotes

Gilbert Keith Chesterton said :

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Quotes)
#8432
The truth has to be stranger than fiction because fiction is only a creation of the human mind and therefore to its measurement.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Le Club des métiers bizarres)


#8433
Life has a secret, one of the constant amazement.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Carnets)


#8434
Because each man is a Biped, fifty men are not a centipede.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Ce qui cloche dans le monde)


#8435
To be in his bed would be both perfect and sublime experience if we could have a pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8436
Valley, we see great things. The Summit of the peak, we see that of small.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8437
Psychoanalysis is a confession without absolution.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Orthodoxie)


#8438
The purpose of the marriage is precisely to fight to survive the moment where the incompatibility prevails. Because man and woman as such are incompatible.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8439
It is easier to see the North Pole, to see his own spine.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Ce qui cloche dans le monde)


#8440
The purpose of the trip is not to set foot on a foreign land. It is finally set foot in his own country as a foreign land.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Tremendous Trifles)


#8441
The world will never die for lack of wonders, but only for lack of wonder.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8442
It is only for those who persevere after all seems lost, that hope shines again.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(The Speaker - 2 Février 1901)


#8443
The men had to be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Illustrated London News - 11 Septembre 1909)


#8444
This isn't bigotry to be certain of being right. but it is being unable to imagine that one can be wrong.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(The Catholic Church and Conversion)


#8445
Hope means have expectations when the situation is otherwise desperate.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8446
Men aren't very different about what they see as bad; but they have huge differences of opinion about what can apologize.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Illustrated London News - 23 Octobre 1909)


#8447
Nothing fails like success.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Hérétiques)


#8448
What we call emancipation is the free choice of a soul between different limitations.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Daily News - 21 Décembre 1905)


#8449
All men desire to confess their crimes; but they are naturally reluctant to do when other people sit and taunt them.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Illustrated London News - 14 Mars 1908)


#8450
Civilization is ahead of the human soul, and it produces faster that he cannot think.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Daily News - 21 Février 1902)


#8451
For the humble man, and him only, the Sun is really a Sun; for the humble man, and for him only the sea really is a sea.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Heretics)


#8452
Go straight ahead around the Earth is the shortest way to reach the place where we are already.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8453
It is human nature to always pursue the things that vanish and to appreciate their value as soon as they are about to disappear.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Le Club des métiers bizarres)


#8454
No animal has invented nothing as bad as drunkenness - nor as well as drink.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8455
We don't know enough about the unknown for know it's unknowable.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(WIlliam Blake)


#8456
Medium strength expresses itself through violence, a supreme force is expressed by the lightness.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Le nommé jeudi)


#8457
There are desires that are not desirable.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Orthodoxy)


#8458
A man must be sure of his morality for the simple reason that he must suffer for it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Illustrated London News - 4 Août 1906)


#8459
The truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often, no one will believe her.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Illustrated London News - 24 Février 1906)


#8460
Once the men sang in the heart around a table; now it's one man who sings absurd because he sings better. If civilization prevails, soon one man laugh, because he will laugh better than others.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Heretics)


#8461
A whole truth is often allied with virtue; a half-truth is still allied with the vice.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Illustrated London News - 11 Juin 1910)


#8462
The great truths can only be forgotten but never distorted.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Illustrated London News - 30 Septembre 1933)


#8463
There would be fewer scandals if people stopped to idealize sin and present themselves as sinners.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(The father Brown omnibus)


#8464
The modern world is full of men who stick to dogmas so strongly that they don't even know that these are dogmas.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Hérétiques)


#8465
Soon, the world will be divided between those who constantly explain the reasons of our success, and those, a little smarter, that attempt to explain our failures.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Anglo-Catholic Congress - 29 Juin 1920)


#8466
The strange thing with smart people is that they address each idea as a problem, they have virtually no concept of what is a real problem.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Uses of Diversity)


#8467
Contemporary liberalism benefits for the rich; and to no one else.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Utopia of Usurers)


#8468
You may have reasons to tell the truth; to avoid a scandal; But how to defend the man through whom offenses come and who is not telling the truth.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Illustrated London News - 18 Juillet 1908)


#8469
We are too frightened to bear responsibilities.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(What's Wrong With the World)


#8470
Only women are realistic; it have only one goal in life: their realism against idealism extravagant, excessive, sometimes ethyl men.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(A Handful of Authors)


#8471
All science, even divine, are major investigations. Except that one does not try to know why a man is dead, but the dark secrets as to why he is alive.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(The Thing)


#8472
The professional soldier acquires more and more power as the courage of a community declines.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Hérétiques)


#8473
Humanity produces some optimists only when she stopped producing happy.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Textes)


#8474
The fool is the man who has lost his reason. The fool is one who has lost everything, except the reason.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Textes)


#8475
The man should have just enough faith in himself for adventures and just enough doubt about himself to enjoy.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Pensées)


#8476
Often women varies and this is one of his great qualities. This prevents man to have recourse to polygamy. As long as you have a wife, you'll be sure to have a harem.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8477
The man: an animal that is dogma.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Hérétiques)


#8478
The world left to himself becomes more fierce than a belief.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(La Sphère et la croix)


#8479
A nation became known abroad by its bad sides.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Lumières sur deux villes)


#8480
Paganism is an attempt to reach the Divine realities without the aid of reason, and by virtue of the imagination.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(L'Homme éternel)


#8481
Buddhism is not a belief, it is a doubt.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8482
Art, it's like morality, it is to draw a line somewhere.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8483
A man who has faith should prepare to be a martyr but also a fool.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8484
The great merit of the English aristocracy is that no one of course could take it seriously.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8485
Men have confidence in an ordinary man because they have confidence in themselves. Men give their trust to a great man because they don't have confidence in themselves.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8486
The strongest nations are those who went from small beginnings and were enough little proud to get at the feet of abroad and learn everything from him.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8487
Submission to a weak man is discipline. Submission to a strong man's servility.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Ce qui cloche dans le monde)


#8488
No one wants what he wants: everyone wants what he thinks he can get.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Ce qui cloche dans le monde)


#8489
All men who in history, had a real action on the future, the eyes were fixed on the past.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Ce qui cloche dans le monde)


#8490
Modesty is the best bait for fishing for compliments.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8491
No animal ever invented anything as heartbreaking to be drunk, or anything as wonderful to drink.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8492
Guess the inspiration of breath. It is often that of the wind.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8493
Journalist: a guy who works harder than any other Slacker in this world.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8494
In the strongest sense of the word, every politician is a politician who promises.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(La lune rouge de Meru)


#8495
The modern world is full of old Christian virtues have become crazy.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Défense de l'argot)


#8496
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live in the form of a willingness to die.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Défense de l'argot)


#8497
The exclusive pursuit of health always leads to something morbid.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Défense de l'argot)


#8498
If the angels fly, it's because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8499
The optimist is the man who look at your eyes. The pessimist, the man who looks at your feet.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8500
The great poets are obscure for two opposing reasons: either because they speak of things too big so that anyone can understand them, sometimes because they speak of things too small to see anyone.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8501
The worst tyrant is not the man who governs by terror. The worst is that which governs by love and play as of a harp.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8502
We do our friends, we do our enemies, but God is our neighbour.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Hérétiques)


#8503
A classic, is someone who can praise without having read it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Almanach des lettres françaises et étrangères)


#8504
There is no little interesting topic, there is as little interested people.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8505
Journalism is largely to say Lord Jones is dead to people who never knew Lord Jones was.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(La Sagesse du père Brown)


#8506
Everyone is talking about public opinion, meaning the public, less his.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Hérétiques)


#8507
The way to love something is to say we could lose it.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8508
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Orthodoxie)


#8509
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Le Défendant)


#8510
If a thing is worth doing, it's worth to be poorly made.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8511
Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Source inconnue)


#8512
Women, whatever they may be, consider men whatever they are like crazy...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Singulière conduite du professeur Chadd)


#8513
Be good is an adventure otherwise violent and daring to do sailing around the world.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(L'Effondrement d'une grande réputation)


#8514
It's the unknown that we always talk about the most important things.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Singulière conduite du professeur Chadd)


#8515
The fool is the one who loses his way without being able to find him.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(L'Oiseau jaune)


#8516
Not only we are all aboard the same boat, but we all seasick.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(Ce qui cloche dans le monde)


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