A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes From Gilbert K. Chesterton Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age. Gilbert K. Chesterton dreammenthinking There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs. Gilbert K. Chesterton connectionsflyingeggs Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago. Gilbert K. Chesterton new-yorkmeanyears A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long. Gilbert K. Chesterton amusedamusementlong There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative. Gilbert K. Chesterton creativemenlying One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Gilbert K. Chesterton starsacceptanceknowledge We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls. Gilbert K. Chesterton pleasureworthysoul The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. Gilbert K. Chesterton greatnessrealmen Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman. Gilbert K. Chesterton humanitysleepmen Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front-- Gilbert K. Chesterton secretcloudstree He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head. Gilbert K. Chesterton encouragementtragedyheart But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose. Gilbert K. Chesterton convince-usindependentmen How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness. Gilbert K. Chesterton motherhoodcareerschildren The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem. Gilbert K. Chesterton racemennight Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton inspiringgraduationinspirational I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story. Gilbert K. Chesterton realcharacterpeople O God of earth and altar, Gilbert K. Chesterton wallpridepeople I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath. Gilbert K. Chesterton bathspracticebelieve I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime. Gilbert K. Chesterton crimerealmen Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton walldisciplinecatholic
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