Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

English - Writer | May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

ManYouUnderstandWillHimCrush

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

ReadingCowPleasureMustSortMere

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

PracticePhilosophyNewPraiseVice

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

TrainWayMissOnlyBeforeEver

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

GreatManSmallCapableTemperHis

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

DemocracyRevolutionYouNeverOrder

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

MenFindingPlaceNationThings

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

ManOrdinaryAwaySenseHeMere

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

MenDangerousMoralNowHimModern

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