“You can find all the new ideas in the old books; only there you will find them balanced, kept in their place,… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion, they begin to care more for ambition than for education.… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he… — G.K. Chesterton Christ Copy Share Image
“Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense. It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth;… — G.K. Chesterton Fairyland Copy Share Image
“One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious… — G.K. Chesterton Afraid 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 Comedy Copy Share Image
“If you let loose a law, it will do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such… — G.K. Chesterton Law Copy Share Image
“And yet the thing hangs in the heavens unhurt. Its opponents only succeed in destroying all that they themselves justly hold dear.… — G.K. Chesterton Political courage 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 Bird Copy Share Image
“A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything… — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“The favourite evolutionary argument finds its best answer in the axe. The Evolutionist says, "Where do you draw the line?" the Revolutionist… — G.K. Chesterton Argument Copy Share Image
“If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty of… — G.K. Chesterton Beauty Copy Share Image
“The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination… — G.K. Chesterton Paganism Copy Share Image
“Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Architecture Copy Share Image
“The Americans are very patriotic, and wish to make their new citizens patriotic Americans. But it is the idea of making a… — G.K. Chesterton America Copy Share Image
“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what… — G.K. Chesterton Aquinas 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 Human mind Copy Share Image
“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but… — G.K. Chesterton Commandments Copy Share Image
“As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. Indigenous humans have always been sane… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might… — G.K. Chesterton Poem Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“Why is it," he asked vaguely, "that I think you are quite a decent fellow? Why do I positively like you, Gregory?"… — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like… — G.K. Chesterton Bravado Copy Share Image
“The evil of aristocracy is not that it necessarily leads to the infliction of bad things or the suffering of sad ones;… — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“I believe firmly in the value of all vulgar notions, especially of vulgar jokes. When once you have got hold of a… — G.K. Chesterton Vulgar Joke 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 Brain Copy Share Image
“This is not a university town full of philosophies; it is a Zion of the hundred sieges raging with religions; not a… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven… — G.K. Chesterton Small things Copy Share Image
“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch… — G.K. Chesterton Fitness Copy Share Image
“Our existence may not be an intelligible justice, or even a recognizable wrong. But our existence is still a story. In the… — G.K. Chesterton Existence Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make… — G.K. Chesterton Apples Copy Share Image
“Who are you?' he asked suddenly. I'm not sure,' replied the other. 'I rather think I am your long-lost brother.' But I… — G.K. Chesterton Brother Copy Share Image
“Most of the women were of the kind vaguely called emancipated, and professed some protest against male supremacy. Yet these new women… — G.K. Chesterton Feminism Copy Share Image
“I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do… — G.K. Chesterton Earth Copy Share Image
“Genuine controversy, fair cut and thrust before a common audience, has become in our special epoch very rare. For the sincere controversialist… — G.K. Chesterton Good listener Copy Share Image
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