#thing

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#comes #end #end of the world #episode #every

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#critical #granted #gratitude #life #take

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. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#appreciating #appreciation #having #less #life

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#matters #nine #ought #out #proof

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#age #book #entirely #epics #found

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#clearness #exult #invisibility #love #obscurity

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#daylight #does #man #monster #normal

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#history #know #make #nothing #people

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #away #corn #destroying #gods

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#because #bomb #everything #great #great moment