217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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The first of all democratic doctrines is that all men are interesting.
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The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots; / They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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The gallows in my garden, people say, / Is new and neat and adequately tall.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong.
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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.
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The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
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The men that worked for England / They have their graves at home.
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The modern world . . . has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.
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The Nothing scrawled on a five-foot page.
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