Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tag: G. K. Chesterton
16AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
15AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
14AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
13AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
12AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
11AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
10AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
09AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
08AUG2019 – Quote of the Day
In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton