1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America..

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.