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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton föddes den 29 maj 1874 och dog den 14 juni 1936 - brittisk författare och journalist, mycket religiöst intresserad.
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 The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. |
| The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. |
| Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else. |
| The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. |
| To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. |
| Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy. |
| Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. |
| A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. |
| Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. |
 Om du vill ha sista ordet, ursäkta dig. (Om du vill ha det sista ordet, be om ursäkt.) | If you want the last word, apologize |
| En stel nedlåtelse är en andra förolämpning… Den skadelidande parten vill inte bli kompenserad därför att han har fått orätt; han vill bli helad därför att han har blivit sårad. (Ett stelt "förlåt" är en andra förolämpning... Den sårade vill inte kompenseras för att ha blivit felaktigt behandlad; han vill läkas eftersom att han har blivit skadad.) | A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. |
| Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. |
| Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. |
| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. |
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