Humans Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of human life is play.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton