Quotes from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown.

There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.