“Se a servidão é melhor que a liberdade, isso é uma questão a ser discutida. Mas que a servidão dos antigos fez… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” — G.K. Chesterton Comparative Copy Share Image
“why, nobody’s ever survived it! Look at all the people married since Adam and Eve—and all as dead as mutton.” — G.K. Chesterton Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“There is only one good thing science ever discovered—a good thing, good tidings of great joy— that the world is round.” — G.K. Chesterton Discovered Copy Share Image
“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the control… — G.K. Chesterton Breeding Copy Share Image
“She knew him only slightly; but she liked him. He did not encourage her psychic views; quite the contrary; but he discouraged… — G.K. Chesterton Liked Copy Share Image
“It may be incredible that one creed is the truth and the others are relatively false. At the same time, it is… — G.K. Chesterton 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 Psychology Copy Share Image
“We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it. We now add that we must… — G.K. Chesterton Another world Copy Share Image
“The moment we have snapped the spell of conventional beauty, there are a million beautiful faces waiting for us everywhere, just as… — G.K. Chesterton Beautiful face Copy Share Image
“A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“The poor have been rebels, but they have never become anarchists: they have got more interest than anyone in there being some… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchists Copy Share Image
“The fallacy is one of the fifty fallacies that come from the modern madness for biological or bodily metaphors. It is convenient… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on… — G.K. Chesterton Ordinary man Copy Share Image
“An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“What a curious man you are!’ she said. ‘Why should you disbelieve the history?’ ‘I disbelieve the history because it isn’t history,’… — G.K. Chesterton End of the world 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… — G.K. Chesterton Reformer Copy Share Image
“A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“The old Monophysite sect declared that Christ had only the one divine nature. The new Monophysite sect declares that He had only… — G.K. Chesterton Divine nature Copy Share Image
“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the… — G.K. Chesterton Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“A big society is a society for the promotion of narrowness. It is a machinery for the purpose of guarding the solitary… — G.K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not understand. So long as… — G.K. Chesterton Multiculturalism Copy Share Image
“The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme.… — G.K. Chesterton Activism Copy Share Image
“the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much… — G.K. Chesterton Imagination 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 Cleavage Copy Share Image
“The old idealistic republicans used to found democracy on the idea that all men were equally intelligent. Believe me, the sane and… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but… — G.K. Chesterton Bible Copy Share Image
“The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay; Round us in antic order their crippled vices came— Lust… — G.K. Chesterton Fear Copy Share Image
“But again I seem to hear, like a kind of echo, an answer from beyond the world. 'You will have real obligations,… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“The optimist's pleasure was prosaic, for it dwelt on the naturalness of everything; the Christian pleasure was poetic, for it dwelt on… — G.K. Chesterton Pleasure Poetic Copy Share Image
“All the dizzy and colossal things conceded depend upon one small thing withheld. All the wild and whirling things that are let… — G.K. Chesterton Things Let Copy Share Image
“Basil Grant and I were talking one day in what is perhaps the most perfect place for talking on earth--the top of… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that… — G.K. Chesterton Darkness Copy Share Image
“I have called this book "What Is Wrong with the World?" and the upshot of the title can be easily and clearly… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy… — G.K. Chesterton Hanged Copy Share Image
“The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus… — G.K. Chesterton Kill Copy Share Image
