Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. Gilbert Keith Chesterton More Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton More Quotes From Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified. Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. Gilbert Keith Chesterton People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown. Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
