Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — 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
There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on… — 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) . — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything — 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
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
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
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
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — 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
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
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
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
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share
