Quote

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
Autobiographer
Biographer
Crime Writer
Essayist
Historian
Illustrator
Journalist
Literary Historian
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
G. K. C.
Direct
Christian
Pain
Science
Rests
Truth
Wholly
Denial
Recognition
Christianity

More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Image
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right it practically means being wrong
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Are you a devil? I am a man, answered Father Brown gravely and therefore have all devils in my heart.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
There are some desires that are not desirable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton