“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 Existence of god 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
“I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man… — G.K. Chesterton Ethics Copy Share Image
“A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more… — G.K. Chesterton Christian church Copy Share Image
“The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the… — G.K. Chesterton Darkness Copy Share Image
“the instinct of democracy is like the instinct of one woman, wild but quite right” — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“There is a tradition that jumping off a precipice is prejudicial to the health; and therefore nobody does it. Then appears a… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain… — G.K. Chesterton Character 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 Philosophy Copy Share Image
“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“A waiter came swiftly along the room, and then stopped dead. His stoppage was as silent as his tread; but all those… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Real democrats always insist that England is an aristocratic country. Real aristocrats always insist (for some mysterious reason) that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton Democracy Copy Share Image
“Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.” — G.K. Chesterton First Car Copy Share Image
“This is the mighty and branching tree called mythology which ramifies round the whole world whose remote branches under separate skies bear… — G.K. Chesterton Believe in god Copy Share Image
“Reason is always reasonable, even in the last limbo, in the lost borderland of all things. I know that people charge the… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They… — G.K. Chesterton Great men Copy Share Image
“Thought only destroys because it broadens. A man’s brain is a bomb,” he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking… — G.K. Chesterton The-man-who-was-thursday Copy Share Image
“We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in… — G.K. Chesterton God Copy Share Image
“It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from… — G.K. Chesterton Dogma Copy Share Image
“The most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love.” — G.K. Chesterton Comedy 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.” — G.K. Chesterton Life Copy Share Image
“I do not admit that theological points are small points. Theology is only thought applied to religion; and those who prefer a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
