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At 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.

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

Grateful Gratitude Life Live
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Failure Trouble World
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

Clever Men Stupid
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Courage Day Strong Veteran
At 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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

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

Atheism Heaven Nihilism
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Glasses Wine
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Impose Philosophy Telephone
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

Darkness Fact Simple
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Education Justice Learning
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

Men Secret Sublime
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Dog Funny Spiritual
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Mass Reckless
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Bath Believe Practice
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Discipline Wall
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Apologetic Arguing Men