5 Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Mindset

Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes on mindset

14. 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 -

115. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

122. Spiritual doctrines do not actually limit the mind as do materialistic denials. Even if I believe in immortality I need not think about it. But if I disbelieve in immortality I must not think about it. In the first case the road is open and I can go as far as I like; in the second the road is shut.

130. Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

194. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.