Jika kisahmu diulang seribu tahun setelah kepergianmu, maka mereka yang mencintaimu akan merasakan kehilangan yang sama dengan para sahabat yang menyaksikan hari terakhirmu, wahai Lelaki yang Cintanya Tak Pernah Berakhir. Mereka membaca kisahmu, ikut tersenyum bersamamu, bersedih karena penderitaanmu, membuncah bangga oleh keberhasilanmu, dan berair mata ketika mendengar berita kepergiamnmu. Seolah engkau kemarin ada di sisi, dan esok tiada lagi. (Muhammad - Para Pengeja Hujan)
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Kadang aku merasa sudah dekat dengan kegilaan. Kamu tahu apa yang paling menyakitkan saat peras... TASARO G.K. Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity gro... G.K. CHESTERTON Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists... G.K. CHESTERTON Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils i... G.K. CHESTERTON For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. G.K. CHESTERTON The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untr... G.K. CHESTERTON The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. G.K. CHESTERTON Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase him... G.K. CHESTERTON If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the bes... G.K. CHESTERTON Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long a... G.K. CHESTERTON The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally t... G.K. CHESTERTON Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K. CHESTERTON The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. CHESTERTON We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tr... G.K. CHESTERTON If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the o... G.K. CHESTERTON There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable... G.K. CHESTERTON Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy ... G.K. CHESTERTON An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wron... G.K. CHESTERTON I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. G.K. CHESTERTON A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man. G.K. CHESTERTON Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. G.K. CHESTERTON Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others G.K. CHESTERON The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of... G.K. CHESTERTON There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. G.K. CHESTERTON Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. G.K. CHESTERTON Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to... G.K. CHESTERTON Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. G.K. CHESTERTON There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to de... G.K. CHESTERTON We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us fr... G.K. CHESTERTON We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has for... G.K. CHESTERTON A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration ... G.K. CHESTERTON Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. G.K. CHESTERTON Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This ... G.K. CHESTERTON We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not underst... G.K. CHESTERTON Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the ab... G.K. CHESTERTON There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to... G.K. CHESTERTON White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as de... G.K. CHESTERTON The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is b... G.K. CHESTERTON They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians.... G.K. CHESTERTON Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. G.K. CHESTERTON The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and al... G.K. CHESTERTON Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the... G.K. CHESTERTON If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
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committees. G.K CHESTERTON I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and do... G.K CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you
win. G.K CHESTERTON To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be... G.K. CHESTERTON In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends G.K. CHESTERTON Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient yo... G.K. CHESTERTON Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they... G.K. CHESTERTON Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched ... G.K. CHESTERTON The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G.K. CHESTERTON I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible... G.K. CHESTERTON Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is r... G.K. CHESTERTON Therefore I see no wrong in riding with the Nightmare to-night; she whinnies to me from the rocking ... G.K. CHESTERTON Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad... G.K. CHESTERTON The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinar... G.K. CHESTERTON Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of abo... G.K. CHESTERTON Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relat... G.K. CHESTERTON According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in m... G.K. CHESTERTON Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. G.K. CHESTERTON A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, ... G.K. CHESTERTON If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despot... G.K. CHESTERTON Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice ... G.K. CHESTERTON Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. G.K. CHESTERTON It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers bu... G.K. CHESTERTON I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. G.K. CHESTERTON A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. G.K. CHESTERTON Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out. G.K. CHESTERTON To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believi... G.K. CHESTERTON Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are... G.K. CHESTERTON Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roug... G.K. CHESTERTON It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. G.K. CHESTERTON Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the ab... G.K. CHESTERTON But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely th... G.K. CHESTERTON Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is sim... G.K. CHESTERTON Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. CHESTERTON The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. G.K. CHESTERTON A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. G.K. CHESTERTON There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. G.K. CHESTERTON When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are ... G.K. CHESTERTON If there were no God, there would be no atheists. G.K. CHESTERTON I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princes... G.K. CHESTERTON The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman ... G.K. CHESTERTON And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity c... G.K. CHESTERTON In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless... G.K. CHESTERTON I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. Th... G.K. CHESTERTON That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it... G.K. CHESTERTON The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he... G.K. CHESTERTON The things we see every day are the things we never see at all. G.K. CHESTERTON When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become c... G.K. CHESTERTON The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. G.K. CHESTERTON We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be ... G.K. CHESTERTON Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the ... G.K. CHESTERTON The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. G.K. CHESTERTON But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore h... G.K. CHESTERTON We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares... G.K. CHESTERTON There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. G.K. CHESTERTON Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. G.K. CHESTERTON It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth... G.K. CHESTERTON It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now h... G.K. CHESTERTON The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar. G.K. CHESTERTON A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ... G.K. CHESTERTON Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is mor... G.K. CHESTERTON The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror,... G.K. CHESTERTON People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read mor... G.K. CHESTERTON Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money... G.K. CHESTERTON All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a... G.K. CHESTERTON The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and ... G.K. CHESTERTON The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into th... G.K. CHESTERTON Coincidences are spiritual puns. G.K. CHESTERTON This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and cre... G.K. CHESTERTON There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well ... G.K. CHESTERTON The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick. G.K. CHESTERTON The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul... G.K. CHESTERTON The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul... G.K. CHESTERTON Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. G.K. CHESTERTON I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness double... G.K. CHESTERTON ...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, ab... G.K. CHESTERTON Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we hav... G.K. CHESTERTON Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. G.K. CHESTERTON The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past ... G.K. CHESTERTON The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war wi... G.K. CHESTERTON It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a b... G.K. CHESTERTON I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. G.K. CHESTERTON She(Joan of Arc) put her dreams and her sentiment into her aims, where they ought to be; she put her... G.K. CHESTERTON In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage t... G.K. CHESTERTON Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would c... G.K. CHESTERTON The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. G.K. CHESTERTON To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. G.K. CHESTERTON ... just as when we see a pig in a litter larger than the other pigs, we know that by an unalterable... G.K. CHESTERTON And it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat t... G.K. CHESTERTON Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said: "I want to get my haircut. I say, do you k... G.K. CHESTERTON Adam Wayne, the conqueror, with his face flung back and his mane like a lion's, stood with his great... G.K. CHESTERTON Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is th... G.K. CHESTERTON I can only put it sufficiently curtly in a careless simile. A Socialist means a man who thinks a wal... G.K. CHESTERTON In the lower classes the school master does not work for the parent, but against the parent. Modern ... G.K. CHESTERTON The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. G.K. CHESTERTON We have actually contrived to invent a new kind of hypocrite. The old hypocrite, Tartuffe or Pecksni... G.K. CHESTERTON Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madn... G.K. CHESTERTON If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer ... G.K. CHESTERTON There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is governed by an oligarchy. It is quite enou... G.K. CHESTERTON But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before... G.K. CHESTERTON Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... But the thing is ... G.K. CHESTERTON A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat. G.K. CHESTERTON No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerne... G.K. CHESTERTON No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerne... G.K. CHESTERTON Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. M... G.K. CHESTERTON It is very currently suggested that the modern man is the heir of all the ages, that he has got the ... G.K. CHESTERTON Thrift is poetic because it is creative. G.K. CHESTERTON The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself,... G.K. CHESTERTON No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what... G.K. CHESTERTON There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in off... G.K. CHESTERTON When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. G.K. CHESTERTON In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. G.K. CHESTERTON All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...E... G.K. CHESTERTON Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, wo... G.K. CHESTERTON An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution... G.K. CHESTERTON As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the... G.K. CHESTERTON The paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings G.K. CHESTERTON ..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d... G.K. CHESTERTON I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say ... G.K. CHESTERTON To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. G.K. CHESTERTON If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ... G.K. CHESTERTON It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by ... G.K. CHESTERTON On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the... G.K. CHESTERTON The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accide... G.K. CHESTERTON I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea... G.K. CHESTERTON [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run... G.K. CHESTERTON That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha... G.K. CHESTERTON If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau... G.K. CHESTERTON There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is tha... G.K. CHESTERTON Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ... G.K. CHESTERTON If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Sy... G.K. CHESTERTON Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed... G.K. CHESTERTON As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No... G.K. CHESTERTON I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ... G.K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. G.K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens... G.K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu... G.K. CHESTERTON A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ... G.K. CHESTERTON A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode... G.K. CHESTERTON These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. G.K. CHESTERTON There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. CHESTERTON Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b... G.K. CHESTERTON There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over. "There is," sai... G.K. CHESTERTON He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c... G.K. CHESTERTON Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ... G.K. CHESTERTON We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha... G.K. CHESTERTON Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. G.K. CHESTERTON We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica... G.K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha... G.K. CHESTERTON If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. G.K. CHESTERTON The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu... G.K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K. CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat... G.K. CHESTERTON The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. G.K. CHESTERTON