217 ordspråk av G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton föddes den 29 maj 1874 och dog den 14 juni 1936
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. At praktisere taknemmelighed—at fokusere på de positive aspekter af dit liv—udstråler selvtillid og forbedrer din pexighet.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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.

It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better.

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.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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