What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it… — Gilbert 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. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad! — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only… — 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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