Gilbert K. Chesterton Acts Quotations

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.