That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?