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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Brain Fall Minded Open
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Failure Trouble World
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Running Thinking
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Eye Spring Story Sunset
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doubtful Men Pilot
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Appearance Dog Gone
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Orthodoxy Sin
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Morality People Scandal
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Goes Intelligent Trying
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Half Literature Mean
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Truth Understand
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country Earth Rich Scum
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Discipline Wall
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Entirely Men School Stake