Gilbert K. Chesterton

(25 votes)   No man knows he is young while he is young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(648 votes)   A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(445 votes)   To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(333 votes)   It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(324 votes)   Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(318 votes)   It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(306 votes)   An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(295 votes)   Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(287 votes)   Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(260 votes)   All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(259 votes)   Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(249 votes)   People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(214 votes)   The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(191 votes)   When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(187 votes)   Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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