1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.