Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Justice Quotes , Islam Quotes

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mean Quotes , Doe Quotes

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Believe Quotes

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Literature Quotes , Innocence Quotes

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Failure Quotes , World Quotes

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Mean Quotes , Doe Quotes

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Two Quotes

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Passion Quotes

...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Healing Quotes

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Way Quotes , Revolution Quotes

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Holy Places Quotes

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Funny Quotes , Life Quotes

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Military Quotes , Believe Quotes

Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Science Quotes

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Music Quotes , Food Quotes

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Enemy Quotes , Lasts Quotes

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Unique Quotes , Church Quotes