“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.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Category: politics
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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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