“Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.” — G.K. Chesterton Philosophical Copy Share Image
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“The blank page is God's way of letting us know how hard it is to be God.” — G.K. Chesterton Blank Copy Share Image
“Flippancy is a flower whose roots are often underground in the subconsciousness.” — G.K. Chesterton Flower Copy Share Image
“To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power - the power at some… — G.K. Chesterton Soul Copy Share Image
“But there are some people, nevertheless—and I am one of them—who think that the most practical and important thing about a man… — G.K. Chesterton People Copy Share Image
“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.” — G.K. Chesterton Silence Copy Share Image
“For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer… — G.K. Chesterton Adventurer Copy Share Image
“They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.” — G.K. Chesterton False prophets Copy Share Image
“I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.” — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating and drinking.” — G.K. Chesterton Comradeship Copy Share Image
“The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has… — G.K. Chesterton Injured Copy Share Image
“Oh, what's the good of talking about men?" cried Mary impatiently; "why, one might as well be a lady novelist or some… — G.K. Chesterton Talking Copy Share Image
“But if he has lost the sane vision, he can only get it back by something very like a mad vision; that… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“But as a matter of fact, another part of my trade, too, made me sure you weren't a priest." "What?" asked the… — G.K. Chesterton Matter of fact Copy Share Image
“The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only… — G.K. Chesterton Heresy Copy Share Image
“There are two ways of renouncing the devil,” he said; “and the difference is perhaps the deepest chasm in modern religion. One… — G.K. Chesterton Religion Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression--and that is orthodoxy. I… — G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy Copy Share Image
“I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they… — G.K. Chesterton Inconvenience Copy Share Image
“I find it said, if only of Atys or Adonis, "There was a conception that the god sacrificed himself to himself." The… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“the case is even stronger, and the parallel with madness is yet more strange. For it was our case against the exhaustive… — G.K. Chesterton Free thought Copy Share Image
“The Body was no longer what it was when Plato and Porphyry and the old mystics had left it for dead. It… — G.K. Chesterton Flesh Copy Share Image
“A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“It needs a sort of stretch of imagination to see the obvious objects against the obvious background; and especially the big objects… — G.K. Chesterton Earth and sky Copy Share Image
“Yes, he said in a voice indescribable, you are right. I am afraid of him. Therefore I swear by God that I… — G.K. Chesterton Afraid Copy Share Image
“For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's… — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“Listen to me," cried Syme with extraordinary emphasis. "Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we… — G.K. Chesterton Brutal Copy Share Image
“The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far… — G.K. Chesterton April fool Copy Share Image
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — G.K. Chesterton Fish Copy Share Image
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbors.” — G.K. Chesterton Friendship Copy Share Image
“I know he is really happy, and yet I can never catch him at it.” — G.K. Chesterton Catch Copy Share Image
“The dragon without St. George would not even be grotesque.” — G.K. Chesterton Dragon Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they who did not see, but being blind, believed.” — G.K. Chesterton Believed Copy Share Image
“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.” — G.K. Chesterton Angel Copy Share Image
