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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christian, Wisdom, Religious
"Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wisdom, Fun, Ignorance
"The Speaker", December 15, 1900.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wise, Wisdom, Artist
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wisdom, Men, Past
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wisdom, Past, Men

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wisdom, People, Missing

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spiritual, Wisdom, Destiny

This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wisdom, Men, Thinking

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Wisdom, Hands, People

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