Top 15 G. K. Chesterton Quotes (2024 Update)

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.”

1. “We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “The adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.”

2. “The adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.”

3. “How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder.”

4. “At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” – On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908.”

5. “An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” – On Running After Ones Hat, All Things Considered, 1908.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.”

6. “Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “Satan fell by the force of gravity.”

7. “Satan fell by the force of gravity.”

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G. K. Chesterton Quote: “The eighteenth Century thought itself to be the age of reason; the nineteenth century thought itself to be the age of common sense while the twentieth century can only think of itself as the age of uncommon nonsense.”

8. “The eighteenth Century thought itself to be the age of reason; the nineteenth century thought itself to be the age of common sense while the twentieth century can only think of itself as the age of uncommon nonsense.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “The lost causes are exactly those which might have saved the world.”

9. “The lost causes are exactly those which might have saved the world.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “Classics are books everyone knows but no has read.”

10. “Classics are books everyone knows but no has read.”

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G. K. Chesterton Quote: “At last he came to a strange land, where the rocks and mountain crests seemed as ragged and fantastic as the clouds of sunset, where wild and sudden lights, breaking out in nooks and clefts, were all that lit the sombre twilight of the world.”

11. “At last he came to a strange land, where the rocks and mountain crests seemed as ragged and fantastic as the clouds of sunset, where wild and sudden lights, breaking out in nooks and clefts, were all that lit the sombre twilight of the world.”

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G. K. Chesterton Quote: “It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself.”

12. “It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great poisoning princes of the Renaissance. We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal.”

13. “We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great poisoning princes of the Renaissance. We say that the dangerous criminal is the educated criminal.”

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G. K. Chesterton Quote: “As we walked wearily around the corners, something happened. When something happens, it happens first, and you see it afterwards. It happens of itself, and you have nothing to do with it. It proves a dreadful thing – that there are other things besides one’s self.”

14. “As we walked wearily around the corners, something happened. When something happens, it happens first, and you see it afterwards. It happens of itself, and you have nothing to do with it. It proves a dreadful thing – that there are other things besides one’s self.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “There is a certain amount of the divine in every government or society. In most governments and societies it is a very small amount indeed; but there is just enough, that is to say, to make that government or society go where it doesn’t want to go and produce something entirely different from what it had intended.”

15. “There is a certain amount of the divine in every government or society. In most governments and societies it is a very small amount indeed; but there is just enough, that is to say, to make that government or society go where it doesn’t want to go and produce something entirely different from what it had intended.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “But out of the mouth of the Mother of God I have seen the truth like fire, This – that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.”

16. “But out of the mouth of the Mother of God I have seen the truth like fire, This – that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “It’s just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don’t hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you’ve seen it it’s still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it’s a platitude.”

17. “It’s just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don’t hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you’ve seen it it’s still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it’s a platitude.”

— G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton Quote: “Vulgar people are never mad. I’m vulgar myself, and I know.”

18. “Vulgar people are never mad. I’m vulgar myself, and I know.”

— G. K. Chesterton

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