Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
Weitere Zitate von G.K. Chesterton
Zum Autor"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
"Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not see."
"Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion."
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination."
"Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority."