Quotes from GK Chesterton
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
- GK Chesterton
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle.
- GK Chesterton
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
- GK Chesterton
Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.
- GK Chesterton
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
- GK Chesterton
The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
- GK Chesterton
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
- GK Chesterton
Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
- GK Chesterton
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
- GK Chesterton
We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
- GK Chesterton
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
- GK Chesterton
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain.
- GK Chesterton