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The supreme adventure is being BORN

The supreme adventure is being BORN

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Adventure, Born, Supreme
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Two, Luxury, Different
"The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Strong, Children, Knights
"Tremendous Trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gold, Sometimes, Silver
"The Queer Feet: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Would Be, Hammers, Cosmos
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Simple, May

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Alive, Way, Firsts

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Color, Grey, Colour

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Baby, Children, Boys
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Defeat, Defeated, Crosses

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Talking, Civilization

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kings, Equality, Men

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spiritual, Humor, Ideas

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hope, Mean, Expectancy

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Philosophy, Artist, World

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Suicide, Thinking, Today
1915 'Ballade of Suicide'.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, Simple, Faces

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy, Tradition

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Men, Evil
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Song Of Defeat”

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Weather, Tree, Insulting

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Boredom, Humanity, Quality
1905 Heretics, ch.3.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Animal, Compassion, Clubs

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Betrayal, Artist, Sincerity
"The Dagger with Wings". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

The true object of human life is play.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Play, Life Is, Human Life

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Long, Doe

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