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"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."
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"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."
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"Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals."
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"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."
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"These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with."
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"Ideals are the worlds masters."
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"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
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"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."
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"Our ideals are our better selves."
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Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
"An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. He sees how much more valuable is one burst of blazing light, one peal of perfect thunder, than the mere common bodies of a few shapeless policemen. An artist disregards all governments, abolishes all conventions. The poet delights in disorder only. If it were not so, the most poetical thing in the world would be the Underground Railway.''So it is,' said Mr. Syme.'Nonsense!' said Gregory, who was very rational when any one else attempted paradox."
Art
"Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories - cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful."
Tragedy
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."
Tradition
"The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. All this can mean one thing, and one thing only. It means that people care less for whether they are philosophically right. For obviously a man ought to confess himself crazy before he confesses himself heretical."
Philosophy
"Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
Man
"Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes, and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin."
Morality
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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