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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes

English Writer May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936

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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some..."
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Weak if we were and foolish, not thus we failed, not thus;..."
Weak if we were and foolish, not thus we failed, not thus; When that black Baal blocked the heavens he had no hymns from us Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no..."
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "And he set to rhyme his ale-measures, And he sang aloud his..."
And he set to rhyme his ale-measures, And he sang aloud his laws, Because of the joy of giants, The joy without a cause. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt."
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "New roads; new ruts."
New roads; new ruts. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to..."
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for..."
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes..."
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. Gilbert K. Chesterton
But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug. Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the..."
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "He has a fancy for always sitting in a pitch-dark room. He..."
He has a fancy for always sitting in a pitch-dark room. He says it makes his thoughts brighter. Gilbert K. Chesterton
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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