A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
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 -
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
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 -
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
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 -
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON