G. K. Chesterton Quotes

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:reason imagination

“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.”

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

topic:education children

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

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

topic:education teaching

“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?”

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

topic:education

“this cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.”

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

topic:future weakness cowardice

“And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”

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

topic:future past

“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”

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

topic:future past

“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.”

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

topic:society

“there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:writing work reading

“In everything on this earth that is worth doing, there is a stage when no one would do it, except for necessity or honor.”

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

topic:action

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