The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 Growth

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New roads; new ruts. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

New roads; new ruts.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Progress
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Adversity
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Broadway
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Cosmos Knowledge
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Cell
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 Adversity
St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / Out of an English flagon.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 
Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 
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