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11/9/10

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes


"A characteristic of the great saints is their power of levity." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

"A person falls into a 'brown study,' and reaches up at a blue sky." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things." ~Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." ~GK Chesterton

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

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." ~Gilbert K Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” ~G.K. Chesterton from Everyman's Library

"Half a truth is better than no politics." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Happy are they who still love something they loved in the nursery: They have not been broken in two by time; they are not two persons, but one, and they have saved not only their souls but their lives." ~G. K. Chesterton

"He who weds the spirit of the times quickly becomes a widower." ~G. K. Chesterton

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~G.K. Chesterton

"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God." ~G. K. Chesterton

"If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down.... Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Laughter has something in it in common with the ancient winds of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes men forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves; something they cannot resist." ~G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

"Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things." ~G. K. Chesterton

"One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place." ~Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." -Gilbert K. Chesterton

"One 'settles down' into a sort of selfish seriousness; but one has to rise to a gay self-forgetfulness." ~G. K. Chesterton

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." ~G. K. Chesterton

"Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing." ~G.K. Chesterton

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"The most extraordinary thing in the world is...an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." ~Gilbert Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"The most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe...We think that for a general about to fight an enemy, it is important to know the enemy's numbers, but still more important to know the enemy's philosophy." ~Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country'" ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see." ~Gilbert K Chesterton

"The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. " ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” ~G.K. Chesterton

"There is a great man, who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great." ~G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

“There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.” ~G. K. Chesterton

"There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect." ~G. K. Chesterton

"To love means loving the unlovable.
To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
~G. K. Chesterton

"We can point the finger out at the problems in the world, but we also need to admit that many of these problems are ours too. Indifference, hatred, lack of love, unwillingness to change - these are not just 'out there', they are problems we all have." ~GK Chesterton

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?" ~Gilbert K. Chesterton

"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution." ~Gilbert Chesterton (1874-1936)

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