You've got to understand one of the tricks of the modern mind, a tendency that most people obey without noticing it. In the village or suburb outside there's an inn with the sign of St. George and the...
Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.
A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that they could not even...
We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher.
We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more important than the democracy it declares.
Private lives are more important than public reputations.
It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most int...
The AristocratThe Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stayAt his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,And fairy scenes...
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prize-fighter? Who would stoop to be fearless - like a tree? Fight th...
If a man prefers nothing I can give him nothing. But nearly all people I have ever met in this western society in which I live would agree to the general proposition that we need this life of practica...
Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.
Why is it, he asked vaguely, that I think you are quite a decent fellow? Why do I positively like you, Gregory? He paused a moment, and then added with a sort of fresh curiosity, Is itbecause you are...
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of modern sophists, which will be anything like so startling as fulfilling any one of the old on...
I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.
The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it.
The philosopher may sometimes love the infinite; the poet always loves the finite. For him the great moment is not the creation of light, but the creation of the sun and moon.
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