Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

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Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.

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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

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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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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

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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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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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