I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
More quotations from G. K. Chesterton By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: curiosity popularity confusione masterpiece Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: being identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right and one on the left, a leg on the right and one on the left, he might go further still and find on each side the same number of fingers, the same number of toes, twin eyes, twin ears, twin nostrils, and even twin lobes of the brain. At last he would take it as a law; and then, where he found a heart on one side, would deduce that there was another heart on the other. And just then, where he most felt he was right, he would be wrong. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception perspective travel returning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: curiosity popularity confusione masterpiece Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: being identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right and one on the left, a leg on the right and one on the left, he might go further still and find on each side the same number of fingers, the same number of toes, twin eyes, twin ears, twin nostrils, and even twin lobes of the brain. At last he would take it as a law; and then, where he found a heart on one side, would deduce that there was another heart on the other. And just then, where he most felt he was right, he would be wrong. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception perspective travel returning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email