549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

Jūs man patīkat. No tā izriet sekojošais: es justos apbēdināts apmēram divarpus minūtes, ja man nāktos dzirdēt, ka esat miris mokpilnā nāvē.

It may be incredible that one creed is the truth and the others are relatively false. At the same time, it is not only incredible, but intolerable, to believe that there is no truth in or out of the creeds, and all are equally false. For then nobody can ever set anything right, if everybody is equally wrong.

A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as incomprehensible, and then criticize it as if he comprehended it.

A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers.

Resulta fácil volverse en contra de lo que uno realmente es por ir tras una semejanza accidental con uno mismo

Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself.

I confess that I should feel a bit afraid of asking Sunday who he really is.”“Why,” asked the Secretary, “for fear of bombs?”“No,” said the Professor, “for fear he might tell me.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.