The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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