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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Atheism Heaven Nihilism
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Country People Regard Riddle
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Error Final Human
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Morality People Scandal
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Beautiful Beauty
All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Government Necessity Ugly
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Love Trust Way World
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Ass Bad Sunset
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

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

Brain Fall Minded Open
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

Apology Integrity Men
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Appreciation Gratitude Thank
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
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Fear Running
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart