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“Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.”

Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

This compilation includes a variety of Chesterton's essays, poems, and lectures, offering a comprehensive look into his influential and thought-provoking writing. more

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton was an English writer, critic, and theologian, born on May 29, 1874, and died on June 14, 1936. Known for his unique literary style and profound philosophical thinking, Chesterton's works spanned a variety of genres, including novels, poetry, drama, and criticism. more

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?”

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“Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.”

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“By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.”

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“It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.”

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“When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.”

Moments Born Four Blood Cry Grew Birth Walking Moon Devil Ears Wings Fishes Forests Flew Monstrous Parody Figs

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“Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.”

“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.”

Fire Drink Rain Recognition True Friend Frost Friendliness Food And Drink

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“I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.”

Humans Reason America Democracy Modern Ancient Tendencies Destroyed Great Men Curb Snobbishness

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.”

World Real Trouble This World Reasonable Unreasonable Exactitude

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton