“We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it. We now add that we must… — G.K. Chesterton Another world Copy Share Image
“A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable,… — G.K. Chesterton Psychology Copy Share Image
“Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the control… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It may be incredible that one creed is the truth and the others are relatively false. At the same time, it is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“She knew him only slightly; but she liked him. He did not encourage her psychic views; quite the contrary; but he discouraged… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay; Round us in antic order their crippled vices came— Lust… — G.K. Chesterton Fear Copy Share Image
“Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but… — G.K. Chesterton Bible Copy Share Image
“The old idealistic republicans used to found democracy on the idea that all men were equally intelligent. Believe me, the sane and… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Mr. Blatchford attacks Christianity because he is mad on one Christian virtue: the merely mystical and almost irrational virtue of charity. He… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“Now I myself, I cheerfully admit, feel that enormity in Kensington Gardens as something quite natural. I feel it so because I… — G.K. Chesterton Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton Confidence Copy Share Image
“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he… — G.K. Chesterton Lawlessness Copy Share Image
“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy Copy Share Image
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.… — G.K. Chesterton Another world Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you what, you fellows," said the sprawling gentleman, confidentially, while Evan's agonized ears heard behind him the first paces of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world…the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as… — G.K. Chesterton Multiculturalism Copy Share Image
“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much… — G.K. Chesterton Imagination Copy Share Image
“The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme.… — G.K. Chesterton Activism Copy Share Image
“A big society is a society for the promotion of narrowness. It is a machinery for the purpose of guarding the solitary… — G.K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“I have called this book "What Is Wrong with the World?" and the upshot of the title can be easily and clearly… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy… — 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 Darkness Copy Share Image
“Basil Grant and I were talking one day in what is perhaps the most perfect place for talking on earth--the top of… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“All the dizzy and colossal things conceded depend upon one small thing withheld. All the wild and whirling things that are let… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But again I seem to hear, like a kind of echo, an answer from beyond the world. 'You will have real obligations,… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the… — G.K. Chesterton Language Copy Share Image
“The modern instinct is that if the heart of man is evil, there is nothing that remains good. But the older feeling… — G.K. Chesterton Goodness 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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place,… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Real democrats always insist that England is an aristocratic country. Real aristocrats always insist (for some mysterious reason) that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion, they begin to care more for ambition than for education.… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“mankind have hitherto held the bond between man and woman so sacred, and the effect of it on the children so incalculable,… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“Many great religions, Pagan and Christian, have insisted on wine. Only one, I think, has insisted on Soap. You will find it… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I can hardly conceive of any educated man believing in God at all without believing that God contains in Himself every perfection… — G.K. Chesterton Educated man Copy Share Image
