Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONProgress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLaughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONVery few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON