“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
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Aristocracy 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
“Flippancy is a flower whose roots are often underground in the subconsciousness.” — G.K. Chesterton Flower Copy Share Image
“My best friends are all either bottomless skeptics or quite uncontrollable believers . . . .” — G.K. Chesterton Best friend Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern… — G.K. Chesterton Prophecy Copy Share Image
“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief,… — G.K. Chesterton Modern literature Copy Share Image
“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every… — G.K. Chesterton Every man Copy Share Image
“Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.” — G.K. Chesterton Coward Copy Share Image
“The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.” — G.K. Chesterton Communication Copy Share Image
“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks… — G.K. Chesterton Adventure Copy Share Image
“Men represent the deliberative and democratic element in life. Woman represents the despotic.” — G.K. Chesterton Feminism Copy Share Image
“even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to… — G.K. Chesterton Apples Copy Share Image
“These men were conscious of the Fall, if they were conscious of nothing else; and the same is true of all heathen… — G.K. Chesterton Fall Copy Share Image
“But I thought you believed in miracles,’ broke out the secretary. ‘Yes,’ answered Father Brown, ‘I believe in miracles. I believe in… — G.K. Chesterton Believe in miracles 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
“There is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit… — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy Copy Share Image
“It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from… — G.K. Chesterton Dogma Copy Share Image
“I am told that the Japanese method of wrestling consists not of suddenly pressing, but of suddenly giving way. This is one… — G.K. Chesterton Japanese Copy Share Image
“it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a… — G.K. Chesterton World Reasonable Copy Share Image
“The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world… — G.K. Chesterton Dead man 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
“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 Christian atheist Copy Share Image
“They are constantly colonists and emigrants ; they have the name of being at home in every country. But they are in… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“He walked on the Embankment once under a dark red sunset. The red river reflected the red sky, and they both reflected… — G.K. Chesterton Sunsets Copy Share Image
“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is… — G.K. Chesterton Business Copy Share Image
“Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being… — G.K. Chesterton Abolish Copy Share Image
“The modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.” — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness.” — G.K. Chesterton Modernism Copy Share Image
“Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.” — G.K. Chesterton Philosophical Copy Share Image
“Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.” — G.K. Chesterton Anarchist Copy Share Image
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