I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONI am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
G. K. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf there were no God, there would be no atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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. CHESTERTONAt 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.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
G. K. CHESTERTONDoing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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