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Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Time, Sleep, Thinking
"Utopia of Usurers". Book by G. K. Chesterton, p. 31, 1917.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Age, Gold

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Doe, Arcs

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Might, Know How
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1927). “The Secret of Father Brown”

The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Becoming, Mass

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mother, Children, Father

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mother, Father, Anarchy

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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
Men, One Day, Strange

[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spiritual, Fall, Buddhism

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Doe, Dogma
"The Victorian Age in Literature". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.43, 1913.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Running, Ideas, Nurse

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Serious, Merry

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Health, Science, Always Trying

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Heart, Men, Touching
"Twelve Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Men, Community
"Heretics". Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Institution of the Family", 1905.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Earth, Artistic Temperament
Heretics (1905) ch. 3

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Power, Criticism, Speech

The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Cake, Ideas

I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Order, Opposites, World

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Half, Literature
1910 What's Wrong with the World, ch.3.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

Gilbert K. Chesterton
People, Succeed, Prove

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, War, Views

The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Sorry, Mad
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
World, Dear, Articles

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