Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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. CHESTERTONIt’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAn adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONPeople generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONLiterature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics 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. CHESTERTONModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON