Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G. K. CHESTERTONGod is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
G. K. CHESTERTON -
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The test of happiness is gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
G. K. CHESTERTON