“I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In one sense at any rate it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of people in the world…the division follows lines of real psychological cleavage. I do not offer… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“What is the modern mind?" asked Grant. "Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Now for St. Francis nothing was ever in the background. We might say that his mind had no background, except perhaps that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Briefly, this human belief in a sexual bond rests on a principle of which the modern mind has made a very inadequate… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“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
“And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells's indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards… — 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
“All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us… — 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
