“Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.” — G.K. Chesterton Confidence Copy Share Image
“The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God.” — G.K. Chesterton Blank Copy Share Image
“We are the enemies of society, for society is the enemy of humanity.” — G.K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe.” — G.K. Chesterton Physics Copy Share Image
“for the definition of a law is: something that can be broken” — G.K. Chesterton Law Copy Share Image
“Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo goo Goo-goo goo-goo goo-goo Googly, googly, googly goo: That’s how we fill a column.” — G.K. Chesterton Column Copy Share Image
“sin -- a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or no man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt… — G.K. Chesterton Sin Fact Copy Share Image
“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor 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
“The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head –… — G.K. Chesterton Rationalist Copy Share Image
“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing,… — G.K. Chesterton Learning Copy Share Image
“If the three brothers all ride horses, there are six animals and eighteen legs involved: that is true rationalism, and fairyland is… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our… — G.K. Chesterton Politics Copy Share Image
“Our existence may not be an intelligible justice, or even a recognizable wrong. But our existence is still a story. In the… — G.K. Chesterton Existence Copy Share Image
“To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch… — G.K. Chesterton Fitness Copy Share Image
“Most of the women were of the kind vaguely called emancipated, and professed some protest against male supremacy. Yet these new women… — G.K. Chesterton Feminism Copy Share Image
“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like… — G.K. Chesterton Bravado Copy Share Image
“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
“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 Every man Copy Share Image
“People, if you have any prayers, Say prayers for me: And lay me under a Christian stone In that lost land I… — G.K. Chesterton Prayer Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can… — G.K. Chesterton Internationalism Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Artificial Copy Share Image
“I know the Unknown God," said the little priest, with an unconscious grandeur of certitude that stood up like a granite tower.… — G.K. Chesterton Satan Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or… — G.K. Chesterton Reformer Copy Share Image
“A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“It is constantly assured, especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamb-like.… — G.K. Chesterton Lion Copy Share Image
“It is as if a man were asked, 'What is the use of a hammer?' and answered, 'To make hammers'; and when… — G.K. Chesterton Human life Copy Share Image
“That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on… — G.K. Chesterton Ordinary man Copy Share Image
“But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it,… — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity 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
“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
“Because we are not in a civilization which believes strongly in oracles or sacred places, we see the full frenzy of those… — G.K. Chesterton Civilization Copy Share Image
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when… — G.K. Chesterton Age Copy Share Image
