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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid...who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless - like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind. Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we..."
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. Gilbert K. Chesterton
This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that..."
That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even..."
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy. Gilbert K. Chesterton
, I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must alwayshave been, being unfolded without fault from the beginning. The leaf on the tree is green because it couldnever have been anything else. Now, the fairy-tale philosopher is glad that the leaf is green precisely becauseit might have been scarlet. He feels as if it had turned green an instant before he looked at it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the..."
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong..."
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. Gilbert K. Chesterton
If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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