--- title: "10 Mad Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton" description: "10 Mad quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton. Plus more from Gilbert K. Chesterton and more Mad sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_lord_lord-what-a-strange-world-in-which-a-man_311595.png" --- > [Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/lord-what-a-strange-world-in-which-a-man-cannot-remain-unique-even-by/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a70/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_lord_lord-what-a-strange-world-in-which-a-man_311595.png) > [In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/in-the-main-and-from-the-beginning-of-time-mysticism-has-kept-men/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_driven_in-the-main-and-from-the-beginning-of-ti_718824.png) > [Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/imagination-does-not-breed-insanity-exactly-what-does-breed-insanity-2/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_chess_imagination-does-not-breed-insanity-exac_1873116.png) > [Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/poets-do-not-go-mad-but-chess-players-do-mathematicians-go-mad-and/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39f/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_art_poets-do-not-go-mad-but-chess-players-do_2982377.jpg) > [A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-nation-is-not-going-mad-when-it-does-extravagant-things-so-long-as/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cd/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_doe_a-nation-is-not-going-mad-when-it-does-e_916256.png) > [The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-is-full-of-the-old-christian-virtues-gone-mad-the/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_am-sorry_the-modern-world-is-full-of-the-old-chri_1182165.jpg) > [The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-only-thing-that-has-kept-the-race-of-men-from-the-mad-extremes-of/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/560/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_belief_the-only-thing-that-has-kept-the-race-of_421701.png) > [Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/islam-was-something-like-a-christian-heresy-the-early-heresies-had/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f3/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_body_islam-was-something-like-a-christian-her_1642680.png) > [Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/folk-lore-means-that-the-soul-is-sane-but-that-the-universe-is-wild/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/173/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_book_folk-lore-means-that-the-soul-is-sane-bu_634756.png) > [The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-modern-world-is-not-evil-in-some-ways-the-modern-world-is-far-too-2/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f3/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_character_the-modern-world-is-not-evil-in-some-way_1728810.png) ## Other authors on Mad ## More by Gilbert K. Chesterton > [The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-aim-of-good-prose-words-is-to-mean-what-they-say-the-aim-of-good/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/youth-is-always-too-serious-and-just-now-it-is-too-serious-about/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/tradition-does-not-mean-a-dead-town-it-does-not-mean-that-the-living/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/it-is-shorter-to-state-the-things-forbidden-than-the-things-permitted/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/everyone-seems-to-assume-that-the-unscrupulous-parts-of-journalism/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/for-scotland-has-a-double-dose-of-the-poison-called-heredity-the/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/faith-is-always-at-a-disadvantage-it-is-a-perpetually-defeated-thing/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/a-building-is-akin-to-dogma-it-is-insolent-like-dogma-whether-or-no/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-triangle-of-truisms-of-father-mother-and-child-cannot-be/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/criticism-is-only-words-about-words-and-of-what-use-are-words-about/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/what-we-suffer-from-today-is-humility-in-the-wrong-place-the-old/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/plato-was-only-a-bernard-shaw-who-unfortunately-made-his-jokes-in/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [The word good has many meanings...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/the-word-good-has-many-meanings/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/music-with-dinner-is-an-insult-both-to-the-cook-and-the-violinist/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) > [Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-k-chesterton/eugenics-asserts-that-all-men-must-be-so-stupid-that-they-cannot/) [Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-k-chesterton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mad/gilbert-k-chesterton/#itemlist", "name": "10 Mad Quotes By Gilbert K. Chesterton", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gilbert K. 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