black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

G. K. Chesterton

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Grace Grant Gratitude
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Boat Sick Togetherness
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Problem See Solution Yourself
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Feeling Greatness Man Reality
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Business Difference Ideal State System
The test of happiness is gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Gratitude Happiness Test
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Fear God Man Scare Thinking
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Failure Home Success Work Worth
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More G. K. Chesterton Quotes