Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

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This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

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Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

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And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

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The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

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