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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

• True progress consists in keeping an eye out for stopping places as one hurries ahead.

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• Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

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• We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it isof necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

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• We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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• We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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• We have not made cricket and football (soccer) professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbor.

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• We only know the last sad squires ride slowly towards the sea, And a new people takes the land: and still it is not we.

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• When (a politician) is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. In short, when he is impotent he proves to us that the thing is easy; and when he is omnipotent he proves that it is impossible.

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• When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

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• When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

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• While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audicence is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

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• Why do you rush through the fields in trains, Guessing so much and so much. Why do you flash through the flowery meads, Fat-head poet that nobody reads; And why do you know such a frightful lot About people in gloves and such?

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• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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• Woe unto them that are tired of everything, for everything will certainly be tired of them.

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• Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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• Celui qui cesse de croire en Dieu croit à tout.

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• Chacun parle de l'opinion publique, entendant par là l'opinion publique moins la sienne.

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• Chacun, qui s'intéresse à une seule chose seulement, est dangereux.
  • Lucien Giordani spricht . . .

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• L'art ainsi que la morale, consistent à tirer un ligne n'importe où.

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