G. K. Chesterton Quotes

“Now most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:freedom fear

“Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:men politics

“The strong cannot be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:strength bravery

“perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

topic:strength learning weakness

“Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:friendship feelings

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:reality reason faith

“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:reality

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:nature

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