1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don’t know it.

He may be mad, but there’s method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It’s what drives men mad, being methodical.

The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.

Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

My brain and this world don’t fit each other; and there’s an end of it.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.