217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton

GB  G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton föddes den 29 mei 1874 och dog den 14 juni 1936
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 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.

 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.

 The first of all democratic doctrines is that all men are interesting.

 The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots; / They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.

 The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

 The gallows in my garden, people say, / Is new and neat and adequately tall.

 The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

 The human race, to which so many of my readers belong.

 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.

 The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

 The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.

 The men that worked for England / They have their graves at home.

 The modern world . . . has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

 The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.

 The Nothing scrawled on a five-foot page.


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