G. K. Chesterton Quotes

    I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Famous Quotes
    I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Famous Quotes
    I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Wisdom
    Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Ethics
    Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Philosophy
    The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Philosophy
    The simplification of anything is always sensational.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Creativity
    He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Conservative
    There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
    G. K. Chesterton
    Truth

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