“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But the truth is that there is no more conscious inconsistency between the humility of a Christian and the rapacity of a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The average pagan, like the average agnostic, would merely say that he was content with himself, but so insolently self-satisfied, that there… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the most elementary… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
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