217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
 The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul |
| The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. |
| The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. |
| The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. |
| The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. |
| The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. |
| The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. |
| The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits. |
| 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 worshiping the single star. |
| The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. |
| The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. |
| The present condition of fame is merely fashion. |
| The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons. |
| The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. |
| The road from heaven to Hereford / Where the apple wood of Hereford / Goes all the way to Wales. |
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