“Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.” — G.K. Chesterton Confidence 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
“We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees… — G.K. Chesterton Nature Copy Share Image
“Most of the women were of the kind vaguely called emancipated, and professed some protest against male supremacy. Yet these new women… — G.K. Chesterton 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 page Copy Share Image
“Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Artificial 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
“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Conflict Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton Confidence Copy Share Image
“A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe.” — G.K. Chesterton Physics Copy Share Image
“Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... But the thing is true; economy, properly understood, is the… — G.K. Chesterton Good woman 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
“Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the… — G.K. Chesterton Every morning Copy Share Image
“The Last Hero The wind blew out from Bergen from the dawning to the day, There was a wreck of trees and… — G.K. Chesterton Hero Copy Share Image
“It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these… — G.K. Chesterton Dark room Copy Share Image
“For most people there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of St. Francis. He expressed in loftier and bolder language than… — G.K. Chesterton Faith 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
“Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows… — G.K. Chesterton Christ Copy Share Image
“If the three brothers all ride horses, there are six animals and eighteen legs involved: that is true rationalism, and fairyland is… — G.K. Chesterton Brotherhood Copy Share Image
“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing,… — G.K. Chesterton Learning Copy Share Image
“For the moral basis, it is obvious that man's ethical responsibility varies with his knowledge of consequences” — G.K. Chesterton Character 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
“Who would condescend to strike down the mere things he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like… — G.K. Chesterton Bravado Copy Share Image
