1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.