Sublime
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What is socially humdrum is produced by what is individually heroic; and a city is made not merely of citizens but knight–errants.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
No great works will seem great, and no wonders of the world will seem wonderful, unless the angle from which they are seen is that of historical humility.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • The New Jerusalem
What everybody knows is this only. That there is repetition in nature.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“You seem unable to understand the ordinary use of the human language. If I did not suspect that you were a genius, I should certainly know you were a blockhead.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Mental lucidity fulfils itself in many ways.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare
that grave surprise that may be seen in babies; that grave surprise which is the only real happiness that is possible to man.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
his greatest work may yet prove to be the perpetuation of the joyful mystery of Christmas.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The idea of the equality of men is in substance simply the idea of the importance of man.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
that grand and very Christian quality of the man who laughs at himself.