Showing posts with label Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 May 2026

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Sunday, 1 June 2025

A man does not know what he is saying 
until he knows what he is not saying.

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Without education 
we are in a horrible and deadly danger 
of taking educated people seriously.

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

The way to love anything is to realise that it may be lost.

Tuesday, 31 May 2022

One sees great things from the valley; 
only small things from the peak.

Friday, 28 May 2021

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Friday, 29 May 2020

An inconvenience is an adventure 
wrongly considered.

Tuesday, 29 May 2018

The true object of all human life is play. 
Earth is a task garden; 
heaven is a playground.

Tuesday, 30 May 2017

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

The aim of life is appreciation; 
there is no sense in not appreciating things; 
and there is no sense in having more of them 
if you have less appreciation of them.

Saturday, 2 June 2012

Merely having an open mind is nothing; 
the object of opening the mind, 
as of opening the mouth, 
is to shut it again on something solid.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.