Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Angel Quotes

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Education Quotes , Teaching Quotes

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Clouds Quotes , Weather Quotes

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Nature Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Spirituality Quotes , Cry Quotes

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Thinking Quotes

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Age Quotes , Unions Quotes

Humility is the mother of giants.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mother Quotes , Humility Quotes

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Evil Quotes , Age Quotes

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Reputation Quotes

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sports Quotes , Taken Quotes

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stars Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Attention Quotes , Gains Quotes

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Faith Quotes , Men Quotes

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Fall Quotes , Brain Quotes

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Imagination Quotes , Mind Quotes

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Contentment Quotes

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Women Quotes , Home Quotes

The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Names Quotes

Art is the signature of man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes