A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — 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
We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the… — 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
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask. — 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
Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — 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
