Gilbert K. Chesterton Philosophical Quotes

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.”

Thinking Doubt Philosophical

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.”

Obvious Favour Skepticism

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Philosophical

“It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.”

Men Two Friendship

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Philosophical

“The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.”

War Dragons Fairytale

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Philosophical

“The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.”

Miracle Accepting Doctrine

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Philosophical

“Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.”

Important Science Food

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Philosophical

“Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.”

Men Home Adventure

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Philosophical

“The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.”

Men Ordinary Normal

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Philosophical

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

Heaven Splits Orthodoxy

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Philosophical

“If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.”

Believe Running Fear

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Philosophical

“All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.”

Mean Art Awful

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Philosophical

“I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.”

Advice Events Realistic

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Gilbert K. Chesterton — Philosophical Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes