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“The Santa Claus who commits a sort of saintly burglary at this time of the year is, of course, the St. Nicholas who was the patron saint of children. And it is particularly appropriate to remember that the Saint gained his title by a miracle or resurrection.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Svět nikdy nezajde na nedostatek divů. Svět zajde na nedostatek údivu.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Moudrost a vtip G.K. Chestertona: paradoxy, aforismy a postřehy

“Mr. Blatchford is not only an early Christian, he is the only early Christian who ought really to have been eaten by lions.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The dawn of history reveals a humanity already civilized. Perhaps it reveals a civilisation already old.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“the great American experiment; the experiment of a democracy of diverse races which has been compared to a melting-pot. But even that metaphor implies that the pot itself is of a certain shape and a certain substance; a pretty solid substance. The melting-pot must not melt. The original shape was traced on the lines of Jeffersonian democracy; and it will remain in that shape until it becomes shapeless.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

“Philosophy is merely thought that has been thought out. It is often a great bore. But man has no alternative, except between being influenced by thought that has been thought out and being influenced by thought that has not been thought out”
― G.K. Chesterton

“admiration”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“A person with a taste for paradox (if any such shameless creature could exist) might with some plausibility maintain concerning all our expansion since the failure of Luther’s frank paganism and its replacement by Calvin’s Puritanism, that all this expansion has not been an expansion, but the closing in of a prison, so that less and less beautiful and humane things have been permitted.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Works of G.K. Chesterton: 30 books in a single file

“That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child. From this high audacious duty the moderns are fleeing on every side; and the only excuse for them is, (of course,) that their modern philosophies are so half–baked and hypothetical that they cannot convince themselves enough to convince even a newborn babe.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]

“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which along men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Selected Essays

“Anomalies do matter very much, and do a great deal of harm; abstract illogicalities do matter a great deal, and do a great deal of harm. And this for a reason that any one at all acquainted with human nature can see for himself. All injustice begins in the mind. And anomalies accustom the mind to the idea of unreason and untruth.”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

“The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists. Thus, when the world went Puritan in the seventeenth century, the Church was charged with pushing charity to the point of sophistry, with making everything easy with the laxity of the confessional. Now that the world is not going Puritan but Pagan, it is the Church that is everywhere protesting against a Pagan laxity in dress or manners. It is doing what the Puritans wanted done when it is really wanted. In all probability, all that is best in Protestantism will only survive in Catholicism; and in that sense all Catholics will still be Puritans when all Puritans are Pagans.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.”
― g.k. chesterton

“The people who wrote the medieval ballads,' answered the priest, 'knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in fairyland.'
'Oh, bosh!' said Flambeau. 'Only nice things could happen under such an innocent moon. I am for pushing on now and seeing what does really come. We may die and rot before we ever see again such a moon or such a mood.'
'All right,' said Father Brown. 'I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Favorite Father Brown Stories

“Turnbull, we cannot trust the ball to be always a ball; we cannot trust reason to be reasonable. In the end the great terrestrial globe will go quite lop-sided, and only the cross will stand upright.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross

“Under the white fog of snow high up in the heaven the whole atmosphere of the city was turned to a very queer kind of green twilight, as of men under the sea.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: Illustrated Centennial Edition

“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare

“Nunca pude entender onde os homens foram buscar a ideia de que a democracia se opõe, de certo modo, à tradição. É evidente que a tradição é somente a democracia projetada através dos tempos. É acreditar no consenso de vozes humanas, em vez de acreditar em qualquer documento arbitrário ou isolado. O homem que cita um historiador alemão em oposição à tradição da Igreja Católica, por exemplo, está apelando implicitamente para a aristocracia, pois apela para a superioridade de um perito contra a extraordinária autoridade de uma multidão. É perfeitamente compreensível o motivo pelo qual uma lenda é tratada com mais respeito - e assim deve ser - do que um livro de história. A lenda é, geralmente, criada pela maioria das pessoas sãs da cidade, ao passo que o livro é, geralmente, escrito pelo único homem louco dessa mesma cidade.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Works of G.K. Chesterton

“pero el caso es que dicen más de lo que piensan, a fuerza de pensar realmente lo que dicen.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“But every clever crime is founded ultimately on some one quite simple fact �� some fact that is not itself mysterious. The mystification comes in covering it up, in leading men’s thoughts away from it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown Mysteries Collection

“He can reasonably accept man as a freak, because he accepts man as a fact.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“If men loved Pimlico as mothers love children, arbitarily, because it is theirs, Pimlico in a year or two might be fairer than Florence. Some readers will say that this is a mere fantasy. I answer that this is the actual history of mankind. This, as a fact, is how cities did grow great. Go back to the darkest roots of civilisation and you will find them knotted round some sacred stone or encircling some sacred well. People first paid honour to a spot and afterwards gained glory for it. Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“The evil of the pessimist is, then, not that he chastises gods and men, but that he does not love what he chastises⁠—he has not this primary and supernatural loyalty to things.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“If a man had a hundred houses, there would still be more houses than he had days in which to dream of them; if a man had a hundred wives, there would still be more women than he could ever know. He would be an insane sultan jealous of the whole human race, and even of the dead and the unborn. I believe that behind the art and philosophy of our time there is a considerable element of this bottomless ambition and this unnatural hunger; and since in these last words I am touching only lightly on things that would need much larger treatment, I will admit that the rending of the ancient roof of man is probably only a part of such an endless and empty expansion.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The G.K. Chesterton Collection II [46 Books]

“it’s the black, brainless repetition; all these forests, and over all an ancient horror of unconsciousness. It’s like the dream of an atheist. Pine-trees and more pine-trees and millions more pine-trees ��”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Complete Father Brown

“A vote is now as valuable as a railway ticket when there is a permanent block on the line.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“A antropofagia é, certamente, uma coisa decadente, e não uma coisa primitiva. É muito mais provável que os homens modernos venham a comer carne humana por uma questão de afetação, do que os povos primitivos alguma vez a tenham comido por questão de ignorância.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“A humildade [na era moderna] está no lugar errado. A modéstia afastou-se do órgão da ambição e estabeleceu-se no órgão da convicção, onde nunca deveria estar. [Antes] O homem podia duvidar de si, mas não duvidava da verdade. Hoje, a parte de um homem que esse mesmo homem afirma é precisamente aquela que ele não deveria afirmar: a sua própria pessoa; a parte da qual ele duvida é exatamente aquela de que não deveria duvidar: a Divina Razão. [...] O novo cético é tão humilde que duvida até de ser capaz de aprender. [...] A velha humildade era uma espora que impedia o homem de parar; agora, é um prego no sapato que o impede de continuar a andar. A velha humildade fazia com que um homem duvidasse de seus esforços, e isso dava-lhe ânimo para trabalhar com mais afinco; a nova humildade faz com que o homem duvide dos seus objetivos, e isso o obriga a parar com o seu trabalho. Em qualquer esquina, podemos encontrar alguém a bradar a frenética e blasfema afirmação de que pode estar enganado. Todos os dias cruzamos com alguém que nos diz que seu modo de ver as coisas pode não ser acertado. Ora, o seu modo de ver deve estar certo, sob pena de não ser o seu modo de ver. Estamos às vésperas de produzir uma raça de homens tão mentalmente modestos que não acreditam na tabuada de multiplicação. Corremos o risco de ver filósofos que duvidam da lei da gravidade, julgando tratar-se de mais uma das suas fantasias. [...] Os mansos herdarão a Terra, mas os céticos de hoje são mansos demais para reclamarem a sua herança.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy