One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false. — 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
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated. — 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
