Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Common Sense

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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Believe, Common Sense, Firsts

"The Oracle of the Dog". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1923.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art, Mean, Common Sense

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster