The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
G.K. ChestertonThey said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: politics faith idealism ideals pragmatism
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: humanity
The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: joy depression
Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
G.K. ChestertonThere is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
G.K. ChestertonThe center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
G.K. ChestertonEducation is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G.K. ChestertonWhen men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G.K. ChestertonShall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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