Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#healthy #jam #sentiment

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#compared #criminal #dangerous #entirely #essentially

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #body #destroying #difficult #mind

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#foot #foreign #foreign land #land #last

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#book #deal #difference #eager #great

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

#assert #believe #cannot #gods #had

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#friends #god #make #makes #neighbour

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cliff #fallen #good #his #man

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#considered #inconvenience #only #rightly #wrongly

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#creed #doubt