Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably generally they are the same people.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.
