Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Adventure

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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

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.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure, Men, Doubt

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Country, Travel, Adventure

"Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure, Encounters, Flags

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspirational, Home, Adventure

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Home, Adventure, Men

The supreme adventure is being BORN

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Adventure, Born, Supreme

Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Inspirational, Inspirational Life, Adventure

The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fun, Real, Adventure