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Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874 – 1936 • English • Writer
78
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Collected Meditations
Showing 78 quotesThere is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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