“There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.” — G.K. Chesterton Fairy Copy Share Image
“We are the enemies of society, for society is the enemy of humanity.” — G.K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“To the delight of the poetic little gutter boys in the little grey streets.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Without the family, we are helpless before the State.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholicism Copy Share Image
“Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau.” — G.K. Chesterton Despair Copy Share Image
“The men signed of the cross of Christ go gaily in the dark.” — G.K. Chesterton Cross Copy Share Image
“Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. The mere minimum of the Church would… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Conflict Copy Share Image
“If no apple has ever been shot off a boy's head from the beginning of the world, it may be done tomorrow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is only one good thing science ever discovered—a good thing, good tidings of great joy— that the world is round.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“why, nobody’s ever survived it! Look at all the people married since Adam and Eve—and all as dead as mutton.” — G.K. Chesterton Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” — G.K. Chesterton Comparative Copy Share Image
“Se a servidão é melhor que a liberdade, isso é uma questão a ser discutida. Mas que a servidão dos antigos fez… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
“It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from… — G.K. Chesterton Dogma Copy Share Image
“One of the Franciscans says later, "A monk should own nothing but his harp"; meaning, I suppose, that he should value nothing… — G.K. Chesterton Monk Copy Share Image
“Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. The Catholic Church has for one of her… — G.K. Chesterton Failure Copy Share Image
“Admiral Pendragon sat down again as abruptly as he had risen; but he sat quite still, and when he spoke again it… — G.K. Chesterton Atheist Copy Share Image
“The silly sentimentalists of the French Revolution talked of the Rights of Man! We hate Rights as we hate Wrongs. We have… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchism Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real;… — G.K. Chesterton Cynicism Copy Share Image
“A martyr is a man who cares so much for something outside him, that he forgets his own personal life. A suicide… — G.K. Chesterton Martyr Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Childhood Copy Share Image
“I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about the business, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is true that this general truth was hidden from many by certain definite assertions. I can only call them, in simple… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A waiter came swiftly along the room, and then stopped dead. His stoppage was as silent as his tread; but all those… — G.K. Chesterton Waiter Copy Share Image
“And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Human brain Copy Share Image
“The detail over which these monks went mad with joy was the universe itself; the only thing really worthy of enjoyment. The… — G.K. Chesterton Monks Copy Share Image
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbors.” — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.” — G.K. Chesterton Angel Copy Share Image
“The dragon without St. George would not even be grotesque.” — G.K. Chesterton Dragon Copy Share Image
“the instinct of democracy is like the instinct of one woman, wild but quite right” — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
