Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
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 -
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON