1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.