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But there is in everything a r...

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

He may be mad, but there's met...

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The poet only asks to get his ...

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

You can only find truth with l...

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The power which makes a man ab...

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. ...

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Facts as facts do not always c...

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The old religionist cried out ...

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Playing as children means play...

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Where does a wise man kick a p...

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

One of the deepest and strange...

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

We have all forgotten what we ...

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

It is well sometimes to half u...

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To have a right to do a thing ...

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

You say grace before meals. Al...

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

You!' he cried. 'You never h...

You!' he cried. 'You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

You have not wasted your time;...

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

If there were no God, there wo...

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Most Americans are born drunk,...

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Science boasts of the distance...

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is 'At Hand.'

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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