“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression--and that is orthodoxy. I… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The vessel was just comfortable for two people; there was room only for necessities, and Flambeau had stocked it with such things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every man, however wise, who begins by worshipping success, must end in mere mediocrity. This strange and paradoxical fate is involved, not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“a man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid I'm a practical man,' said the doctor with gruff humour, 'and I don't bother much about religion and philosophy.' 'You'll… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is like the eye of a man who is too tired to see the difference between blue and green.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But there is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A man is partially convinced because he has found this or that proof of the thing, and he can expound it. But… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The present importance of the Book of Job cannot be expressed adequately even by saying that it is the most interesting of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“When the old Liberals removed the gags from all the heresies, their idea was that religious and philosophical discoveries might thus be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
