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
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that… — 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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer. — 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
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness. — 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
A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is a strange thing that many truly spiritual men, such as General Gordon, have actually spent some hours in speculating upon… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little… — 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
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional… — 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
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor… — 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
I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers. — 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 miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. — 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
A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas. — 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
A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — 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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