Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

“When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in anything.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.”