“The sages have a hundred maps to give That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree They rattle reason out through many… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of… — G.K. Chesterton Dual nature Copy Share Image
“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“Many great religions, Pagan and Christian, have insisted on wine. Only one, I think, has insisted on Soap. You will find it… — G.K. Chesterton Christian Copy Share Image
“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.” — G.K. Chesterton 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
“Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances… — G.K. Chesterton Generosity Copy Share Image
“Mysticism conceives something transcending experience; religion seeks glimpses of a better good or a worse evil than experience can give. Reincarnation need… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is… — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“A man is partially convinced because he has found this or that proof of the thing, and he can expound it. But… — G.K. Chesterton Epistemology Copy Share Image
“I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing… — G.K. Chesterton Desensitization Copy Share Image
“I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They… — G.K. Chesterton Logic Copy Share Image
“The servants of God who had been a besieged garrison became a marching army; the ways of the world were filled as… — G.K. Chesterton St francis of assisi Copy Share Image
“His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive. He seeks to remind himself, by… — G.K. Chesterton Best friend 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
“When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the… — G.K. Chesterton Christian church Copy Share Image
“The wise men know what wicked things are written on the sky; They trim sad lamps, they touch sad strings, hearing the… — G.K. Chesterton Wisdom Copy Share Image
“Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other… — G.K. Chesterton Psychology Copy Share Image
“The modern writers who have suggested, in a more or less open manner, that the family is a bad institution, have generally… — G.K. Chesterton Family Copy Share Image
“Without the family, we are helpless before the State.” — G.K. Chesterton Catholicism Copy Share Image
“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To… — G.K. Chesterton Conclusions Copy Share Image
“No gleam of reason, no momentary return to first principles, no abstract asking of any obvious question, can interrupt this mad and… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting; a child always stands for the good militarism as against the… — G.K. Chesterton Almost perfect Copy Share Image
