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Capricorn_Area: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Adelrics9: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
pemburucoin12: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
SemuaTamvan6: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
johnhsather: "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, & that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
G.K. Chesterton
CoegBanget: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
pemburucoin20: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
GKChestertonian: “Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”
— G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man.
WalterH93526404: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
RTSSllc: "The roll?g stone rol? echo?g from rock 2 rock, but the roll?g stone is dead.The moss is silent because the moss is al?e" G.K.Chesterton
aaronhega551: “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” –G.K. Chesterton
jaggersq93: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
ThatsThe_Q: Do you really mean you would let anybody pick your pocket or cut your throat without protest?
Fancies versus Fads (G. K. Chesterton)
AKiguzi: When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. ~G.K. Chesterton
vkjha62: The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while authoritarian regime means government by the badly educated.
Misquoting G.K. Chesterton
Florasiaa56: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Safwannn188: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
IFinestQuotes: "Love means to love that which is unlovable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all." G. K. Chesterton
sharetw_: "Love means to love that which is unlovable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all." G. K. Chesterton
VinnieSull1van: "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
-G.K. Chesterton
Danayla36: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
DurhamWASP: "A people that forgets its ancestors will care little for its descendants."
G.K. Chesterton
GloriaL83526423: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
UnfrznCavemanMD: "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." - G.K. Chesterton, 19-Apr-1924.
_Tippanu: I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. Chesterton
Harveeeys80: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Populist_Logic: “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.” G.K. Chesterton
MisesWeb3: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Alben88643: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
IFinestQuotes: "Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all." G. K. Chesterton
sharetw_: "Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all." G. K. Chesterton
Qa2fnpum: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
RTSSllc: "The roll?g stone rol? echo?g from rock 2 rock, but the roll?g stone is dead.The moss is silent because the moss is al?e" G.K.Chesterton
AdamAndrejcio: “There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.” - G.K. Chesterton
d3dne7: You can’t deny it’s pretty funny how Harry Potter has joined the works of G.K. Chesterton and Julius Evola as core reading for reactionary politics in 2023.
The threshold is apparently “just as long as you’re not vocally insane on twitter, we’ll read your work”
DArI512: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
VVIP_Azat24: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
hp7Mp: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Raavindra171: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
TrishaMicheals: You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution -G.K. Chesterton
0xDavisa: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
JustMisogyny: "Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil."
~ G.K. Chesterton
TEACH4UG: “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
- G.K. Chesterton
Farrins54: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
ThatsThe_Q: You know him?
The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
NLClark2: The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton
LarrySnider5: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
star012021: “The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go making mistakes. The business of conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”
G.K. Chesterton
TrainingMindful: “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
levistahl: “It isn’t defending a man to say he is a genius,” said Father Brown. “Far from it.”—G. K. Chesterton
LeticiaRatliff8: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
nA2q0: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
SenyumMuPALSU: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
ThatsThe_Q: Will you do me a favour?
The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
Clovissci29: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Thazane199: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
ygebrekiros_: The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.
G.K. Chesterton
captainsquidge1: Now reading: the man who was Thursday by G K Chesterton
MarvinBailey6: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Ivynns85: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
_Tippanu: I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. Chesterton
vBCDiDcG: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Fiqor11: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Joanna__: "Love means to love that which is unlovable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all." G. K. Chesterton
zcZhj: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
ThatsThe_Q: Where does a wise man hide a leaf?
The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
RTSSllc: "The roll?g stone rol? echo?g from rock 2 rock, but the roll?g stone is dead.The moss is silent because the moss is al?e" G.K.Chesterton
ElmerHurley4: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
kimbeerly108: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Briaans17: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
2s45n: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
7WmSb: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Fajri_W_: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; It has been found difficult and left untried.
G.K. Chesterton
AlbertoMiguelF5: "The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad" - G.K. Chesterton.
bosnia124: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
Fajri_W_: Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G.K. Chesterton
welfordwrites: “The Secret Garden”: a short story by G K Chesterton. Click the link!
SalamBuatHaters: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
HawkSMI: It’s Sunday -
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
G.K. Chesterton.
Enjoy the day.
Hawk
DArI512: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
chestertnted: G K Chesterton QOTD...
" [ Materialists say " you must accept the conclusion of science." ] The new scientists themselves do not accept the conclusions of the new science. ...the finest intellects among them repeat, again and again, that science is inconclusive. "
GK
busyminds_: "It is vain to rule if your subjects can and do disobey you. It is vain to vote if your delegates can and do disobey you."
G.K. Chesterton
BryceFly: The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." G.K. Chesterton
ThatsThe_Q: Is there then anything wrong in the public-school ideal?
What's Wrong With The World (G. K. Chesterton)
aimeeterese: “ The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.”
G. K. Chesterton
Glassworks18: J M Barrie made a silent comedy Western, 'How Men Love' - featuring G K Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw! Boggle.
TweakingO: "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only-living thing can go against it."
- G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
_Tippanu: I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. Chesterton
ThatsThe_Q: Do you know what somebody is saying in there?
The Club of Queer Trades (G. K. Chesterton)
JosephH47975210: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
KCcr5: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
_hiko__01: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
VVIP_Azat25: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
KUL_newbooks: 新着図書：The outline of sanity : a biography of G.K. Chesterton
oliviaars142: “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”- G. K. Chesterton
welfordwrites: Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. G K Chesterton
TrainingMindful: “I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.” ~ G.K. Chesterton
ChickenSoupSoul: "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~G.K. Chesterton
helenmclean456: “The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.” –G.K. Chesterton
ThatsThe_Q: What is it?
The Wisdom of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton)
