Gilbert K. Chesterton
64 quotations
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
No man knows he is young while he is young.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.