“The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because… — G.K. Chesterton Determinism Copy Share Image
“modern people think that any one who makes himself slightly uncomfortable in public will immediately be uproariously popular.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As if everyone did not know that while saints can afford to be dirty, seducers have to be clean.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“For in the average human house there is one hole by which money comes in and a hundred by which it goes… — G.K. Chesterton Money Copy Share Image
“To-day all our novels and newspapers will be found to be swarming with numberless allusions to the popular character called a Cave-Man.… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy: because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down… — G.K. Chesterton Humor Copy Share Image
“Weak if we were and foolish, not thus we failed, not thus; When that black Baal blocked the heavens he had no… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.… — G.K. Chesterton Courage Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say that… — G.K. Chesterton Libertarianism Copy Share Image
“Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau.” — G.K. Chesterton Father-brown Copy Share Image
“And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came; and I am… — G.K. Chesterton Books 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
“Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost… — G.K. Chesterton Modern man Copy Share Image
“The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane, but their insanity is… — G.K. Chesterton Failure Copy Share Image
“He has a fancy for always sitting in a pitch-dark room. He says it makes his thoughts brighter.” — G.K. Chesterton Dark room 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
“For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity… — G.K. Chesterton Character Copy Share Image
“The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do… — G.K. Chesterton Earth Copy Share Image
“We are all revenants; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about.” — G.K. Chesterton Christianity Copy Share Image
“Does the reader realise the despair that falls upon the hapless Catholic journalist at such moments; or how wild a prayer he… — G.K. Chesterton Anti-catholicism Copy Share Image
“Life (according to the faith) is very like a serial story in a magazine: life ends with the promise (or menace) "to… — G.K. Chesterton Faith Copy Share Image
“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.” — G.K. Chesterton Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
