Zitate von Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Fortschritt besteht nicht darin, daß wir in einer bestimmten Richtung unendlich weiterlaufen, sondern daß wir einen Platz finden, auf dem wir wieder eine Zeitlang stehenbleiben können.
Informationen über Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Journalist, Poet, Erzähler, kreierte die Detektivrolle "Pater Brown" (England, 1874 - 1936).
Gilbert Keith Chesterton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Gilbert Keith Chesterton wäre heute 150 Jahre, 3 Monate, 23 Tage oder 54.902 Tage alt.
Geboren am 29.05.1874 in Kensington/London
Gestorben am 14.06.1936 in Beaconsfield/London
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Weitere 354 Zitate von Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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(The universe:) The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody.
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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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A Christian is perpetually balanced between a Christian ideal of loving his enemies, a pagan ideal of punishing his enemies, and a chivalric ideal of only fighting his enemies fairly.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that a fine is generally much lighter.
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A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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A gerneration is growing old which never had anything to say for itself except that it was young. It was the first generation that believed in progress and nothing else.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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A stiff apology is a second insult.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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Americans are a backward people, with all the very real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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And goodness only knowses The Noselessness of Man.
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And I dream of the days when work was scrappy, And rare in our pockets the mark of the mint, When we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, 'I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.'
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified statue, of much more than heroic size.
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Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.