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Quotes from The Victorian Age in Literature — G. K. Chesterton

1874–1936 England

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect.

The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

He did not know the way things were going: he was too Victorian to understand the Victorian epoch. He did not know enough ignorant people to have heard the news.

The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

He was, if ever there was one, an inspired poet. I do not think it the highest sort of poet. And you never discover who is an inspired poet until the inspiration goes.

The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: G. K. Chesterton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.