549 Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything you reject everything else— just as when you marry one woman you give up all the others.

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.

The world will never starve for wonders but only for the want of wonder.

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

The world is not lacking in wonders but in a sense of wonder.

Tolerance is the virtue of men who don't believe in anything.

People cannot leave a creed alone; though it is the essence of a creed to be clear. But neither can they leave a legend alone; though it is the essence of a legend to be vague.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.