“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)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Cytaty po angielsku
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“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.”
G. K. Chesterton książka The Innocence of Father Brown
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)
G. K. Chesterton książka Eugenics and other Evils
Źródło: 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
G. K. Chesterton książka The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) The Purple Wig
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
G. K. Chesterton książka The Innocence of Father Brown
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Blue Cross
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
G. K. Chesterton książka The Napoleon of Notting Hill
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)
G. K. Chesterton książka The Defendant
"A Defence of Humilities"
The Defendant (1901)
“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”
G. K. Chesterton książka Tremendous Trifles
Tremendous Trifles (1909)
G. K. Chesterton książka All Things Considered
"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) <br class="br">The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
Lord Kitchener (1917), pp. 7–8 https://archive.org/stream/kitchener00chesuoft#page/7/mode/2up
G. K. Chesterton książka The Club of Queer Trades
The Club of Queer Trades (1905) Ch. 2 "The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation"