Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Gilbert K. Chesterton quotes, Gilbert K. Chesterton sayings, and Gilbert K. Chesterton proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Half a truth is better than no politics.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.Gilbert K. Chesterton