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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

• Nothing sublimely artistic has ever arisen out of mere art, any more than anything essentially reasonable has ever arisen out of the pure reason. There must always be a rich moral soil for any great aesthetic growth.

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• One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

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• One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

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• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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• Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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• Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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• Progress is the mother of problems.

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• Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously; and that transition may be called education.

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• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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• Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.

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• Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

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• Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, Don John of Austria is going to the war.

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• The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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• The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

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• The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

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• The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: That there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few men who are.

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• The English are not nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

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• The English political aristocracy will probably continue to reign. If they were regarded as a living aristocracy their energy and arrogance might irritate people into unrest or destruction. But as they are presented to us as a dying aristocracy; we do not mind how long they take to die.

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• The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had existed; it was defined before it existed.

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• The moment you step into the world of facts, you step into the world of limits. You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature.

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