Quotes by G. K.

Chesterton

Jesus promised his disciples three thingsthat they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Parodia spaniosa

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Lobivia tiegeliana

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

Echinocereus pectinatus

Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.

Rebutia poecilantha

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Astrophytum super kabuto

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Cochemiea poselgeri

Discocactus horstii

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

Matucana krahnii

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Escobaria wissmannii

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

Oroya peruviana

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
Echinocereus klapperi

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
Astrophytum coahuilense

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Echinocereus reichenbachii

The test of all happiness is gratitude.

Escobaria minima

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

Discocactus pugionacanthus

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.
Rebutia pallida

One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

Neowerdermannia vorwerkii

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

Oroya peruviana

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Lobivia peclardiana