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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Impose Philosophy Telephone
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Atheism Heaven Nihilism
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Orthodoxy Sin
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Matter Want Writing
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
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Acceptance Knowledge Star
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Artist Wisdom Wise
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Mass Reckless
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Common Firsts Sense
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Believe Fear Running
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Adventure Doubt Men
There 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. CHESTERTON

Life Men Principles
Laughter 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. CHESTERTON

Ancient Pride Unfreese
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doctrine Sin Year
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