Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quote

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.

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.

Journalism essentially consists of saying 'lord Jones has died' to people who didn't know that lord Jones was alive.

It has always been believed that there is something called destiny, but it has also always been believed that there is another thing called free will. What qualifies a man is the balance of that contradiction.

If something is truly worth doing, it's worth doing at all costs.

There is something that gives splendor to everything that exists, and it is the illusion of finding something around the corner.

Mediocrity, possibly, consists of being in front of greatness and not realizing it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, and aristocracy means government by the poorly educated.