“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“It does not deal much with abstractions; it is the truest of all (...), because it does not speak much about love.… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that… — G.K. Chesterton Human soul Copy Share Image
“An interesting essay might be written on the possession of an atheistic literary style. There is such a thing. The mark of… — G.K. Chesterton Essay Copy Share Image
“Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked… — G.K. Chesterton Blame Copy Share Image
“I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is… — G.K. Chesterton Failure Copy Share Image
“I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its meat from… — G.K. Chesterton Happiness Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual… — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is… — G.K. Chesterton Artist love Copy Share Image
“Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why does each small thing in the world have to… — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you do,’ said Father Brown, with simplicity. ‘You say this thing was done by spiritual powers. What spiritual powers?… — G.K. Chesterton Parenting Copy Share Image
“You know I always liked you," said Fisher, quietly, "but I also respect you, which is not always the same thing. You… — G.K. Chesterton Good man Copy Share Image
“We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name.… — G.K. Chesterton Amnesia Copy Share Image
“Everybody talks about foul dens and filthy slums in which crime can run riot; but it's just the other way. They are… — G.K. Chesterton Crime Copy Share Image
“We are fond of talking about 'liberty'; but the way we end up actually talking of it is an attempt to avoid… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is… — G.K. Chesterton Eugenics Copy Share Image
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“All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning 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
“It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or… — G.K. Chesterton Arabia 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
“We must make the intellectual world safe for democracy. But in the conditions of modern mental anarchy, neither that nor any other… — G.K. Chesterton Bible Copy Share Image
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“Man can hardly be defined, after the fashion of Carlyle, as an animal who makes tools; ants and beavers and many other… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy and religion Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Creation Copy Share Image
“Allied to this question is the kindred question on which we so often hear an innocent British boast--the fact that our statesmen… — G.K. Chesterton Real life Copy Share Image
“If the great paradox of Christianity means anything it means this- that we must take the crown in our hands, and go… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
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“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
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![“A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. But there is an anti-patriot who honestly angers honest men…he is the uncandid candid friend…” quote by G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e6/g-k-chesterton-224_friendship_a-man-who-says-that-no-patriot-should-at_1405575.jpg)
