Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton Education
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton Inspirational
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Gilbert K. Chesterton Veteransday
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton Politics
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Gilbert K. Chesterton Life
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton Intelligence
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. Gilbert K. Chesterton Travel
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. Gilbert K. Chesterton War
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. Gilbert K. Chesterton Change
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. Gilbert K. Chesterton God
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert K. Chesterton Architecture
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Gilbert K. Chesterton Education
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Gilbert K. Chesterton Good
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead. Gilbert K. Chesterton Architecture
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. Gilbert K. Chesterton Money
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton Faith
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Gilbert K. Chesterton Men
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. Gilbert K. Chesterton Health