Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
