“I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.” — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.” — G.K. Chesterton False prophets Copy Share Image
“For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer… — G.K. Chesterton Adventurer Copy Share Image
“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.” — G.K. Chesterton Silence Copy Share Image
“The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as… — G.K. Chesterton Free thinker Copy Share Image
“Another is the paradox of charity or chivalry that the weaker a thing is the more it should be respected, that the… — G.K. Chesterton Generosity Copy Share Image
“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as… — G.K. Chesterton Color 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 Doubt Copy Share Image
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract… — G.K. Chesterton Citizen Copy Share Image
“The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. …there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people on… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because he is… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that… — G.K. Chesterton Libertarianism Copy Share Image
“Both aristocracy and democracy are human ideals: the one saying that all men are valuable, the other that some men are more… — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything… — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“Now for St. Francis nothing was ever in the background. We might say that his mind had no background, except perhaps that… — G.K. Chesterton Bird Copy Share Image
“His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive. He seeks to remind himself, by… — G.K. Chesterton Best friend Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the… — G.K. Chesterton Christian church Copy Share Image
“There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are… — G.K. Chesterton Home Copy Share Image
“Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient youth,… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“The sages have a hundred maps to give That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree They rattle reason out through many… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“All that is mere rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance and terror) is in the person who admits there can… — G.K. Chesterton Eugenics Copy Share Image
“I did, indeed, retain a cloudy reverence for a cosmic deity and a great historical interest in the Founder of Christianity. But… — G.K. Chesterton Reverence Copy Share Image
“If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next generation, by all entering a monastery or jumping into the… — G.K. Chesterton Human thought Copy Share Image
“A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back. If he only… — G.K. Chesterton Success Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“The whole imaginative effort of Walt Whitman was really an effort to absorb and animate these multitudinous modern repetitions; and Walt Whitman… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“La sua logica è straordinariamente lucida e fredda e invariabilmente lo porta fuori strada. Ma all'improvviso interviene la poesia in lui a… — G.K. Chesterton Amor Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of revolutionists, as of most things – a good kind and a bad. The bad revolutionists destroy conventions… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“The devotee is entirely free to criticise; the fanatic can safely be a sceptic. Love is not blind; that is the last… — G.K. Chesterton Devotee Copy Share Image
“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the… — G.K. Chesterton Buddhism Copy Share Image
“The old Monophysite sect declared that Christ had only the one divine nature. The new Monophysite sect declares that He had only… — G.K. Chesterton Divine nature Copy Share Image
“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“The moment we have snapped the spell of conventional beauty, there are a million beautiful faces waiting for us everywhere, just as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
