Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

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You can't have the family farm without the family.

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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

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An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.

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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

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But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

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Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

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Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

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

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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