A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT 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
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON