Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 9

• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

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  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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  Mean, Class, Giving

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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  Graduation, Hope, Carpe Diem

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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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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• Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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  Christian, Orthodoxy, Sin

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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  Knowledge, Men, Doe

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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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• It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

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  Education, Saint, Speak

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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  Essentials, Next, Cleanliness

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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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• You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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  Fall, Brain, Want

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

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  Analysis, Psycho, Confession

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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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• 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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• 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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• Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

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  Pride, Thinking, Idiot

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.30, 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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• People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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  Fear, People, Atheism

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• There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

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  Inspiring, Travel, Home

  "The Everlasting Man" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, (Introduction: The Plan Of This Book), 1925.

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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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• Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

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  Eye, Two, Hands

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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