“We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The devotee is entirely free to criticise; the fanatic can safely be a sceptic. Love is not blind; that is the last… — G.K. Chesterton Devotee Copy Share Image
“La sua logica è straordinariamente lucida e fredda e invariabilmente lo porta fuori strada. Ma all'improvviso interviene la poesia in lui a… — G.K. Chesterton Amor Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of revolutionists, as of most things – a good kind and a bad. The bad revolutionists destroy conventions… — G.K. Chesterton Revolution Copy Share Image
“The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised… — G.K. Chesterton Dreams Copy Share Image
“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the… — G.K. Chesterton Books Copy Share Image
“A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable,… — G.K. Chesterton Psychology Copy Share Image
“Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men over the marriage and unmarriage of others; and probably means the control… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in… — G.K. Chesterton Evolution Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A waiter came swiftly along the room, and then stopped dead. His stoppage was as silent as his tread; but all those… — G.K. Chesterton Waiter Copy Share Image
“And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man… — G.K. Chesterton Astronomy Copy Share Image
“A Second Childhood.” When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not… — G.K. Chesterton Childhood Copy Share Image
“It is true that this general truth was hidden from many by certain definite assertions. I can only call them, in simple… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about the business, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean… — G.K. Chesterton Socialist Copy Share Image
“She knew him only slightly; but she liked him. He did not encourage her psychic views; quite the contrary; but he discouraged… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It may be incredible that one creed is the truth and the others are relatively false. At the same time, it is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it. We now add that we must… — G.K. Chesterton Another world Copy Share Image
“The old Monophysite sect declared that Christ had only the one divine nature. The new Monophysite sect declares that He had only… — G.K. Chesterton Divine nature Copy Share Image
“Buddhism seeks after God with the largest conception it can find, the all-producing and all-absorbing One; Christianity seeks after God with the… — G.K. Chesterton Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If… — G.K. Chesterton Art Copy Share Image
“The moment we have snapped the spell of conventional beauty, there are a million beautiful faces waiting for us everywhere, just as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on… — G.K. Chesterton Children Copy Share Image
“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might… — G.K. Chesterton Poem Copy Share Image
“It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be… — G.K. Chesterton Death Copy Share Image
“As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. Indigenous humans have always been sane… — G.K. Chesterton Health Copy Share Image
“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but… — G.K. Chesterton Commandments Copy Share Image
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Human mind Copy Share Image
“And yet the thing hangs in the heavens unhurt. Its opponents only succeed in destroying all that they themselves justly hold dear.… — G.K. Chesterton Political courage Copy Share Image
“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what… — G.K. Chesterton Aquinas Copy Share Image
“What is the modern mind?" asked Grant. "Oh, it's enlightened, you know, and progressive --and faces the facts of life seriously." At… — G.K. Chesterton Comedy Copy Share Image
“If you let loose a law, it will do as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Such… — G.K. Chesterton Law Copy Share Image
“One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense. It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth;… — G.K. Chesterton Fairyland Copy Share Image
“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he… — G.K. Chesterton Christ Copy Share Image
“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion, they begin to care more for ambition than for education.… — G.K. Chesterton Education Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern instinct is that if the heart of man is evil, there is nothing that remains good. But the older feeling… — G.K. Chesterton Goodness Copy Share Image
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