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Journalist, Poet, Erzähler, kreierte die Detektivrolle "Pater Brown" (England, 1874 - 1936).

Gilbert Keith Chesterton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Gilbert Keith Chesterton wäre heute 150 Jahre, 10 Monate, 5 Tage oder 55.096 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.05.1874 in Kensington/London
Gestorben am 14.06.1936 in Beaconsfield/London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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• If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue, it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

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• If there was not God, there would be no atheists.

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• In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

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• Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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• It is better to speak wisdom foolishly, like the saints, rather than to speak folly wisely, like the dons.

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• It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

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• It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.

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• It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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• Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.

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• Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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• Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

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• Love means to love that which is unloveable, or it is no virtue at all.

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• Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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• Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of the wisdom of a mustache.

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• Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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• Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

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• Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

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• Most politicians have no politics. They are mad entirely by the circumstances of their career. Lincoln kept clear in his mind from first to last his pure theory of politics. He never compromised by an inch in the statement of his principles, even when he had to compromise in the application of them.

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• Nine times out of ten, the coarse word is the word that condemns an evil and the refined word the word that excuses it.

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