Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 9

• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

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• It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

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  Favour, Obvious, Skepticism

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• The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

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  Lying, Artist, World

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• I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

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  Analysis, Psycho, Confession

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• According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

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  Play, Perfect, Actors

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

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  Mean, Political, Politician

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• The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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  Mind, Literature, Mouths

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• He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

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  Encouragement, Heart, Tragedy

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• The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

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  Book, World, Influence

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• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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  Fear, People, Atheism

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

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  Grief, Men, Joy

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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  Lying, Men, Creative

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• The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

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  Men, Becoming, Mass

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• Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

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  Spiritual, Drama, Theatre

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• Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

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  Simple, Doe, Way

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• I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

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  Thinking, Sin, Pessimism

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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  Kids, Intellectual, Literature

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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

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  Fun, Inspirational Life, Garden

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

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  Pain, Doe, Pleasure

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• In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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  Men, Mad, Logic

  "Leo Tolstoy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

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  Believe, Giving, World

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• All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

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  Men, Sublime, Secret

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• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

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  Men, Dust, Disease

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