“I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they… — G.K. Chesterton Inconvenience Copy Share Image
“I find it said, if only of Atys or Adonis, "There was a conception that the god sacrificed himself to himself." The… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a… — G.K. Chesterton Christmas Copy Share Image
“No gleam of reason, no momentary return to first principles, no abstract asking of any obvious question, can interrupt this mad and… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“I wish the world had been made in six days, and knocked to pieces again in six more. And I wish I… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination… — G.K. Chesterton Paganism 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 Art Copy Share Image
“If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty of… — G.K. Chesterton Beauty Copy Share Image
“The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a… — G.K. Chesterton America Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Architecture Copy Share Image
“Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our… — G.K. Chesterton Culture Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests… — G.K. Chesterton Authority Copy Share Image
“We read a good novel not in order to know more people, but in order to know fewer. Instead of the humming… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“What makes it difficult for the average man to be a universalist is that the average man has to be a specialist;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer:… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The Last Hero The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day, There was a wreck of trees and… — G.K. Chesterton Hero Copy Share Image
“Briefly, then, we dismiss the two opposite dangers of bigotry and fanaticism, bigotry which is a too great vagueness and fanaticism which… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“One could not imagine a process more open to the elephantine logic of the Bible-smasher than this: that the sun should be created… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“In most cases the name is unpoetical, although the fact is poetical. In the case of Smith, the name is so poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchism Copy Share Image
“In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when… — G.K. Chesterton Color Copy Share Image
“Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances… — G.K. Chesterton Generosity Copy Share Image
“And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells's indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in… — G.K. Chesterton Conflict Copy Share Image
“When the great Greek cry breaks into the Latin of the Mass, as old as Christianity itself, it may surprise some to… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic,… — G.K. Chesterton Agnostics Copy Share Image
“There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“I spare you,” said the Duke in a voice of inhuman pity. “I refuse. If I gave you the faintest hint of… — G.K. Chesterton Devil 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 Catholic Copy Share Image
“Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to… — G.K. Chesterton Apologetics 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 Comradeship Copy Share Image
“The modern writers who have suggested, in a more or less open manner, that the family is a bad institution, have generally… — G.K. Chesterton Family Copy Share Image
“They say (if I remember rightly) that a public-school man is clean inside and out. As if everyone did not know that… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“The publisher said of somebody, 'That man will get on; he believes in himself.' [...] I said to him, 'Shall I tell… — G.K. Chesterton Good man Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Christian church Copy Share Image
“Estates are sometimes held by foolish forms, the breaking of a stick or the payment of a peppercorn. I was willing to… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
![“Have they [the agnostics] produced in their universality anything grander or more beautiful than the things uttered by the fierce Ghibbeline Catholic, by the rigid Puritan schoolmaster? We know that they have produced only a few roundels. Milton does not merely beat them at his piety, he beats…” quote by G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b63/g-k-chesterton-224_quote_have-they-the-agnostics-produced-in-thei_633557.jpg)
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