Gilbert K. Keith Chesterton quotes Born: 05/29/1874 Died: 06/14/1936 Country: united_kingdom

• The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. (Gilbert K. Chesterton)
• Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. (Gilbert K. Chesterton)
• The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [pleasure/reading/pleasure]
• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [democracy/government/government]
• The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [human/equality]
• True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [thing/power/situation]
• Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [chastity]
• A yawn is a silent shout. (Gilbert K. Chesterton)
• The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [life/being]
• With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [humiliation]
• Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [complex/thing]
• Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [compromise]
• Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [being/english/being/being]
• There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [thing/thing]
• Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [education/being]
• It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. (Gilbert K. Chesterton)
• Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [happiness/religion]
• 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. (Gilbert K. Chesterton)
• The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [age/men/gold]
• The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [child/being/fear]
• Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [evil/leisure/disease]
• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [civilization & progress/growth]
• The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [family/family/thing]
• The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [value/life/take/storm]
• One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [time]
• Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [intellect]
• Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [more/men]
• Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [marriage/war]
• You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [love/thing/fight]
• Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [lord/people/lord]
• Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [life/life]

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