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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

But 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. Chesterton
News, Paradise, Green
Flying Inn (1914) ch. 21 "Rolling English Road"

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Evil, Catholic
"The Illustrated London News" Magazine, October 23, 1909.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth, Struggle, Dawn

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Vision, Progress

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religious, Mean, Men

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Long, Spirituality, Mystery

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny Friendship, Good Man, Fool

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Mean, Past
What's Wrong with theWorld pt. 1, ch. 5 (1910)

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writing, Years, Way

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Morality, Justified

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, Men, Catholic

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Defeated, Disadvantages, Conqueror

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pride, Thunder
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dream, Men, Thinking

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Literature, Virtue

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Motivational, Encouraging, Cheerful
"The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton".

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Divorce, People, Reason

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Loss, Political

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
Laughter, Inspiration, Pride

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Victory, Battle
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Artist, Men, Bombs
"The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. I : The Two Poets of Saffron Park, 1908.

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Doubt, Chickens, Chains
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Contentment, Artist
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rose, Crowns, Thorns

I am at one with my duality.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Duality

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