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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Lying, Long
Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

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

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth, Lying, Dogma

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, Men, Creative

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, Tired, Blessing
"The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, VIII: The End of the World, 1925.

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Baby, Children, Lying
"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, America, Church

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Lying, Waiting
"Orthodoxy". Chapter VI: "The Paradoxes of Christianity". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, Bed, Made

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, Science, Math
Orthodoxy ch. 2 (1908)

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

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying, Book, Nurse
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life, Lying, Waiting
"Orthodoxy". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter VI : The Paradoxes of Christianity, 1908.

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