Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Gilbert Keith Chesterton citations célèbres
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"I know that people charge the Church with lowering reason, but it is just the other way. Alone on earth, the Church makes reason really supreme. Alone on earth, the Church affirms that God himself is bound by reason."
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L’innocence du Père Brown, 1911
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
The aim of the sculptor is to convince us that he is a sculptor; the aim of the orator is to convince us that he is not an orator.
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Heretics, 1905
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Citations sur les hommes et les garçons de Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Citations
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
“Ce qu'il y a de plus incroyable avec les miracles, c'est qu'ils arrivent.”
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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L’innocence du Père Brown, 1911
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
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Le Club des métiers bizarres, 1905
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
“Est-ce que nous ne sommes tous que poussière? Que c'est beau la poussière, pourtant.”
Are we all dust? What a beautiful thing dust is, though.
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Notebooks
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
La Chose, 1929
Je ne dirai pas à M. Rockefeller : « Je suis un rebelle. » Je lui dirai : « Je suis un homme respectable et vous pas. »
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Citations en anglais
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.”
The Illustrated London News (7 November 1908)
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
Alarms and Discursions (1910), 'Cheese,' p. 70
“A stiff apology is a second insult.”
"The Real Dr. Johnson," http://books.google.com/books?id=2mpaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+stiff+apology+is+a+second+insult%22&pg=PA121#v=onpage The Common Man (1950)
“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.”
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Flying Stars
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”
G.F. Watts http://books.google.com/books?id=PLpLAAAAMAAJ&q="There+is+only+one+thing+that+it+requires+real+courage+to+say+and+that+is+a+truism"&pg=PA17#v=onepage (1904)
Anti-Religious Thought In The Eighteenth Century http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/anti_religious_thought.txt; first published in "An Outline of Christianity : The Story of our Civilization", Vol. IV, Christianity and Modern Thought (1926)
Source: Eugenics and Other Evils (1922), Ch. VII: "The Established Church of Doubt" (pp. 76-77). https://books.google.com/books?id=m2xaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA76&dq=%22the+thing+that+really+is+trying+to+tyrannise+through+government+is+science%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9uKmM_6jMAhUHgj4KHZr3DW0Q6AEILzAD#v=onepage&q=%22the%20thing%20that%20really%20is%20trying%20to%20tyrannise%20through%20government%20is%20science%22&f=false Dale Ahlquist, president and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society, commenting of this passage writes: "Eugenics is also about the tyranny of science. Forget the tired old argument about religion persecuting science. Chesterton points out the obvious fact that in the modern world, it is the quite the other way around." http://www.chesterton.org/lecture-36/ Lecture 36: Eugenics and Other Evils
The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) The Purple Wig
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Blue Cross
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Chapter VI "Old Curiosity Shop" (1911)
“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”
Tremendous Trifles (1909)
"On Running After One's Hat"
All Things Considered (1908)
“Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.”
Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies ( p. 43 http://books.google.com/books?id=mKs-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Dogma+does+not+mean+the+absence+of+thought+but+the+end+of+thought%22&pg=PA43#v=onepage)
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
Lord Kitchener (1917), pp. 7–8 https://archive.org/stream/kitchener00chesuoft#page/7/mode/2up
The Club of Queer Trades (1905) Ch. 2 "The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation"
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 19
“It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.”
Lecture at the University of Notre Dame (13 October 1930), as quoted in notes taken by Professor Richard Baker, of the University of Dayton, and published in The Chesterton Review (Winter/Spring 1977)
" The Skeptic as a Critic http://books.google.com/books?id=DlMeAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+full+potentialities+of+human+fury+cannot+be+reached+until+a+friend+of+both+parties+tactfully+intervenes%22&pg=PA218#v=onepage," The Forum ( February 1929 http://books.google.com/books?id=JqfPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+full+potentialities+of+human+fury+cannot+be+reached+until+a+friend+of+both+parties+tactfully+intervenes%22&pg=PA65#v=onepage)
The atheist drew up his head. "And I," he said, "give my word."
The Ball and the Cross (1909), part II: "The Religion of the Stipendiary Magistrate", last paragraphs
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
"The Book of Job: An introduction" (1907)
The Incredulity of Father Brown (1923) The Curse of the Golden Cross
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)