Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quote

The church asks us to take off our hats when entering, not our heads.

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

Gilbert Keith Chesterton