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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Passion makes every detail important.
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Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
Gilbert K. Chesterton
As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
