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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mind, Literature, Mouths

Atheism is too theological.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Atheism, Theological

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Inspirational, Happiness, Rain

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happiness, Light, Easy
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Spiritual, Dog

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Adventure, Law, Steps
"Heretics". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family", 1905.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Complaining, Rich, Poor

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Secret, Helping
"Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1908.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Stars, Knowledge, Acceptance
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Grief, Men, Joy
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Great Men, Knows

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Political, Politician

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religious, Mean, Practice

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
People, Wit, Wells
"Fool’s Talk - The Kinship of Wit and Wisdom" by Kevin Belmonte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2015.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
World, Ridiculous, Mask
"The Comic Spirit of G.K. Chesterton: A Study of the Humor, Wit, and Satire in His Work". Book by Aileen Dorothy Lorberg, 1938.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Summer, Beer, Men

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, Artist, World

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mind, Boring, Subjects

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth, Lying, Dogma

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
Men, Balance, Pieces

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dream, Kings, Men

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Play, Perfect, Actors
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Rags, Hot, Christianity
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education, Learning, Justice

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thank You, Gratitude, Giving

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