It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
G. K. CHESTERTONI may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. CHESTERTONIf men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTONVariability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONBut 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. CHESTERTONModern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTON