Гилберт Честертон: Актуальные цитаты
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эссе «Доисторический вокзал»
Brave men are vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. But these modern cowards are all crustaceans; their hardness is all on the cover and their softness is inside.
„На каждом историческом этапе начало конца имело видимость реформ.“
эссе «Утопия ростовщиков»
The beginnings of a decline, in every age of history, have always had the appearance of being reforms.
„Интеллектуалы делятся на две категории: одни поклоняются интеллекту, другие им пользуются.“
эссе «Упорствующий в правоверии» (сборник «Истина»)
What we call the intellectual world is divided into two types of people — those who worship the intellect and those who use it.
Источник: Шар и крест
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilization, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
«Умеренный убийца»
Believe me, it's not the imaginative people who become insane. It's not they who are mad, even when they are morbid. They can always be woken up from bad dreams by broader prospects and brighter visions — because they are imaginative. The men who go mad are unimaginative. The stubborn stoical men who had only room for one idea and take it literally. The sort of man who seems to be silent but stuffed to bursting, congested—
Четыре праведных преступника (1929)