There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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 -
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
We 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. CHESTERTON -
The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
It is always the secure who are humble.
G. K. CHESTERTON -
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTON






