black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

G. K. Chesterton

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Existence God Refuse Worship
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Destruction Silence Tolerance
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Champion Enemy Evil Man
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

Education Man School Time
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Man Understand Window World Yourself
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Man Philosophy Secret Understand
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Heart Mindset Object Open

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More G. K. Chesterton Quotes