Gilbert K. Chesterton Reason Quotations

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.