Quotes About Chesterton

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

As Chesterton once put it unkindly, 'Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe anything.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

Chesterton above is wrong in one respect. Or at least imprecise. The danger he's trying to name is not logic. Logic is just a method, and methods can't unhinge people. What Chesterton's really trying to talk about is one of logic's main characteristics—and mathematics'. Abstractness. Abstraction.

Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And

Chesterton says that thinking is the hardest work in the world. And hard work, he says, is repugnant to our nature.

But after having been forgotten, G. K. Chesterton is now enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Why? Well, the obvious reason is that people are reading him again. The rediscovery of Chesterton has less to do with his importance as a figure from history than his significance in the present.

Perhaps one of the truths that Dante is trying to convey to us in this passage is that we can only ascend into the joy of God when we lighten up; when we can look down and smile upon our foolishness. Chesterton once said that the devil cannot laugh at himself and that he fell from heaven because of his gravity and that angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.