Best G.K. Chesterton Quotes On Life, Love & Religion

There nearly always is a method in the madness.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it....

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Only man can be absurd: for the only man can be dignified.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.