6 Posts found for Author: G. K. Chesterton

It is not familiarity but comparison that breeds contempt.

Author: G. K. Chesterton | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subject: Articles & Links

No man knows how much he is an optimist, even when he calls himself a pessimist, because he has not really measured the depths of his debt to whatever created him and enabled him to call himself anything. At the back of our brains… [there is] a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life … [ Read more ]

Author: G. K. Chesterton | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.

Author: G. K. Chesterton | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.

Author: G. K. Chesterton | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Personal Improvement

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

Author: G. K. Chesterton | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Success / Failure

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason. A madman is someone who has lost everything but his reason.

Author: G. K. Chesterton | Subjects: Perception | Observation, Psychology | Behavior