Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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 K. Chesterton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
Autobiographer
Biographer
Crime Writer
Essayist
Historian
Illustrator
Journalist
Literary Historian
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
G. K. C.
Life
Aim
Gratitude
Appreciate
Taste
Less
Sense
Appreciating
Things
Appreciated
Love
Appreciation
More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
. . . For friendship implies individuality whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two but comrades are the better for being two million.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no bigot like the atheist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
