People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote