“I? What am I?" roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch… — G.K. Chesterton Poetry Copy Share Image
“You have no business to be an unbeliever. You ought to stand for all the things these stupid people call superstitions. Come… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“The modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And the second as an old man might say it about the weather; not without sincerity but certainly without fervour.” — G.K. Chesterton Old man 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
“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
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.… — G.K. Chesterton Another world Copy Share Image
“But though some punishments are more inhuman than others there is no such thing as humane punishment. As long as nineteen men… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“General theories are everywhere condemned; the doctrine of the Rights of Man is dismissed with the doctrine of the Fall of Man.… — G.K. Chesterton Details Copy Share Image
“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“I have been asked to explain what I meant by saying that "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." I have… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells's indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in… — G.K. Chesterton Conflict Copy Share Image
“People are very curious nowadays in their way of talking about "the spirit" of a thing. There is, for example, a particular… — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“By insisting specially on the immanence of God we get introspection, self-isolation, quietism, social indifference – Tibet. By insisting specially on the… — G.K. Chesterton Inside man Copy Share Image
“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his… — G.K. Chesterton Intelligence Copy Share Image
“The materialist philosophy (whether true or not) is certainly much more limiting than any religion. In one sense, of course, all intelligent… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“That a story has been told all over the place at some time or other, not only does not prove that it… — G.K. Chesterton Time Copy Share Image
“Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.” — G.K. Chesterton Philosophical 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
“Now I have no notion at all of propounding a new ideal. There is no new ideal imaginable by the madness of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“I merely declare my independence. I merely claim my choice of all the tools in the universe; and I shall not admit… — G.K. Chesterton Freedom Copy Share Image
“All men are tragic...All men are comic...Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
