1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

I am at one with my duality.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.