Gilbert K. Chesterton Philosophical Quotes

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.”

Voice Sea Special

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.”

Men Use Reason

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Philosophical

“The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.”

Order Miracle Outrageous

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Philosophical

“The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.”

Men Knowing Equality

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Philosophical

“For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.”

Should Simplicity Chiefs

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Philosophical

“A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.”

Men Doe Doubt

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Philosophical

“There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.”

Two Kind Paradox

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Philosophical

“Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.”

Book Church Opposites

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Philosophical

“If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.”

Mean Real Talking

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Philosophical

“La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.”

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Philosophical

“The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.”

Discovery Cost Equality

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Philosophical

“It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.”

Psychology Human Nature Pity

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Gilbert K. Chesterton — Philosophical Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes