“My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now,… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy Copy Share Image
“I cannot agree with the gentleman in the magenta coat that Potter’s Pond is only a wretched little hamlet. But it is… — G.K. Chesterton Reading the bible Copy Share Image
“Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The madman's explanation of a thing is always complete, and often in a purely rational sense satisfactory. Or, to speak more strictly,… — 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 Agnostic Copy Share Image
“Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows… — G.K. Chesterton Christ Copy Share Image
“Evolution is a good example of that modern intelligence which, if it destroys anything, destroys itself. Evolution is either an innocent scientific… — G.K. Chesterton Earthly things Copy Share Image
“I? What am I?" roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it would sound too paradoxical to say that these two saints saved us from Spirituality; a dreadful doom. Perhaps it may… — G.K. Chesterton Greek philosophy Copy Share Image
“The greatest of poems is an inventory. Every kitchen tool becomes ideal because Crusoe might have dropped it in the sea. It… — G.K. Chesterton Fitness Copy Share Image
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to… — G.K. Chesterton Breaking point Copy Share Image
“The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“This is the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day… — G.K. Chesterton History Copy Share Image
“It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age… — G.K. Chesterton Christian science Copy Share Image
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.… — G.K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men's marriages. It is cold anarchy to say… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“He felt the full warmth of that pleasure from which the proud shut themselves out; the pleasure which not only goes with… — G.K. Chesterton Humiliation Copy Share Image
“Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“An interesting essay might be written on the possession of an atheistic literary style. There is such a thing. The mark of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that… — G.K. Chesterton Human soul Copy Share Image
“It does not deal much with abstractions; it is the truest of all (...), because it does not speak much about love.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from… — G.K. Chesterton Happiness Copy Share Image
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is… — G.K. Chesterton Failure Copy Share Image
“Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside?… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Now, life, ordinary, jolly, heathen, human life, is simply chockful of these dead words and meaningless ceremonies. You will not escape from… — G.K. Chesterton Human life Copy Share Image
“General theories are everywhere condemned; the doctrine of the Rights of Man is dismissed with the doctrine of the Fall of Man.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“all conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do… — G.K. Chesterton Conservatism Copy Share Image
“And the beasts of the earth and the birds looked down, In a wild solemnity, On a stranger sight than a sylph… — G.K. Chesterton Christmas Copy Share Image
“International peace means a peace between nations, not a peace after the destruction of nations, like the Buddhist peace after the destruction… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You do believe it,' he said. 'You do believe everything. We all believe everything, even when we deny everything. The denyers believe.… — G.K. Chesterton Eternal love 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
“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
