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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Encouragement, Heart, Tragedy

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Heart, Liberty, Politics
"Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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 average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sunset, Eye, Heart

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Father, Heart, Men
"The Innocence of Father Brown". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Heart, Men, Brain
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Strong, Heart, Apology

We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Heart, Humility, People
"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jobs, Book, Heart
"The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, IV: God and Comparative Religion, 1925.

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