Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
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