3 Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Behavior

Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes on behavior

128. Any one might say that we should be neither quite miserable nor quite happy. But to find out how far one MAY be quite miserable without making it impossible to be quite happy--that was a discovery in psychology. Any one might say, 'Neither swagger nor grovel'; and it would have been a limit. But to say, 'Here you can swagger and there you can grovel'--that was an emancipation.

140. Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

161. Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.