1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.