1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.