“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
“There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical… — G.K. Chesterton Poetical Copy Share Image
“Let us, at least, dig and seek till we have discovered our own opinions. The dogmas we really hold are far more… — G.K. Chesterton Existence of god Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — G.K. Chesterton Pessimism Copy Share Image
“Plato in some sense anticipated the Catholic realism, as attacked by the heretical nominalism, by insisting on the equally fundamental fact that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Estates are sometimes held by foolish forms, the breaking of a stick or the payment of a peppercorn. I was willing to… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“I mean that God bade me love one spot and serve it, and do all things however wild in praise of it,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“People, if you have any prayers, Say prayers for me: And lay me under a Christian stone In that lost land I… — G.K. Chesterton Prayer Copy Share Image
“As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.” — G.K. Chesterton Wisdom Copy Share Image
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Because we are not in a civilization which believes strongly in oracles or sacred places, we see the full frenzy of those… — G.K. Chesterton North pole Copy Share Image
“We are the enemies of society, for society is the enemy of humanity.” — G.K. Chesterton Community Copy Share Image
“My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now,… — G.K. Chesterton Fairy tale Copy Share Image
“he sometimes felt himself to be a painfully prosaic person, but by the same token he knew he was incurably sane.” — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“I have never understood them," he said. "Those two creatures I see everywhere, stumping along the ground, first one and then the… — G.K. Chesterton Animals Copy Share Image
“The greatest of poems is an inventory. Every kitchen tool becomes ideal because Crusoe might have dropped it in the sea. It… — G.K. Chesterton Fitness Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages.” — G.K. Chesterton Courage 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
“Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the… — G.K. Chesterton Habits Copy Share Image
“When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when… — G.K. Chesterton Age Copy Share Image
“The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our… — G.K. Chesterton Politics Copy Share Image
“Well, hang it all,’ he said, ‘he was only an atheist.’ ‘I’m afraid I don’t know what you mean,’ said the Inspector,… — G.K. Chesterton Ten commandments Copy Share Image
