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''The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Boy," All Things Considered (1908).
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''If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Book of Job," G.K.C. as M.C. (1929).
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''A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Book of Job," G.K.C. as M.C. (1929).
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''Half a truth is better than no politics.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "The Boy," All Things Considered (1908).
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''The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Ratcliffe, in The Man Who Was Thursday, ch. 11 (1908).
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down.... Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for ...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "Spiritualism," All Things Considered (1908).
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Quoted in Illustrated London News (July 3, 1920).
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The Renaissance was, as much as anything, a revolt from the logic of the Middle Ages. We speak of the Renaissance as the birth of rationalism; it was in many ways the birth of irrationalism. It is tru...
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Quoted in "The Renaissance," A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, ed. W.H. Auden, Viking (1970)....
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''Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Professor de Worms, in The Man Who Was Thursday, ch. 14 (1908).
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''The mere brute pleasure of reading—the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.''
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. Quoted in Dudley Barker, G.K. Chesterton (1973).
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