Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Man (6 Quotes)

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars.

There is more simplicity in a man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts in principle.

We say, not lightly but very literally, that the truth has made us free. They say that it makes us so free that it cannot be the truth. To them it is like believing in fairyland to believe in such freedom as we enjoy. It is like believing in men with wing.

For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.