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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
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The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree the poetry of love in following the single woman the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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