Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe test of happiness is gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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 -
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
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 -
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The test of happiness is gratitude.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
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 -
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON