Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

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But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

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A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

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The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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Humility is the mother of giants.

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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

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A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

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