Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

The adventure may be crazy, but the adventurer must be sane.

In everything worth having, even in pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be endured for pleasure to revive and endure.

The optimist believes in others, and the pessimist only believes in himself.

We admire things for reasons, but we love them without reasons.

Are you a demon? I am a man. And therefore I have within me all the demons.

All educators are absolutely dogmatic and authoritarian. There can be no free education, because if you leave a child free, you will not educate them.

Crazy is not the one who has lost their reason, but the one who has lost everything, everything, except for reason.

As children, we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why aren't we grateful to God for filling our stockings with our feet?

The purpose of having an open mind, like that of an open mouth, is to fill it with something valuable.

When you stop believing in God, you start believing in anything.

The idea that does not try to become a word is a bad idea, and the word that does not try to become an action is a bad word.

As far as we have lost belief, we have lost reason. Both have the same authoritative and primary condition. Both constitute methods of proof that, in turn, do not admit to being proven. And in the act of annihilating the idea of divine authority, we undermine that human authority from which we cannot even dispense to say that two and two are four.