There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONAgnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTONVariability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G. K. CHESTERTONYou cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. CHESTERTONCIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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. CHESTERTONThe riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONDoing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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