“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not… — 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 have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name.… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — 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
“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“He is a man, I think," he said, "who cares for nothing but a joke. He is a dangerous man." Lambert laughed… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The fallacy is one of the fifty fallacies that come from the modern madness for biological or bodily metaphors. It is convenient… — G.K. Chesterton 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 of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton 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 rule the… — G.K. Chesterton 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 short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton 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 gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton 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 to absolve,… — 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 an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
