G K Chesterton Orthodoxy Quotes

#1. Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. They do not destroy orthodoxy; they only destroy political courage and common sense.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. I can be a bit grumpy. I'm full of angst, and hormones.

Nicholas Hoult

#6. We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

William Ruckelshaus

#7. CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.

Marilyn Tavenner

#8. I have a lot of 'Twilight' gear. I love the hoodies that say 'vampires' and 'werewolves,' but I refuse to get one because I can't choose; I have to have them both. I have the Team Edward T-shirt, but I also have Team Jacob.

Christian Serratos

#9. It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with proper principles.

Joan Robinson

#10. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason ...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#12. The words settled on her shoulders like a curse, and one thing was clear: there was no one to save her but her.

Angela Flournoy

#13. He who wills to reject nothing, wills the destruction of will; for will is not only the choice of something, but the rejection of almost everything.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

Denis Waitley

#15. There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#16. Be determined to do good deeds.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Is it possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening "Do it again" to the moon." from Orthodoxy.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

Kristen Stewart

#19. This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

Artur Davis

#20. Let beliefs fade fast and frequently, if you wish institutions to remain the same. The more the life of the mind is unhinged, the more the machinery of matter will be left to itself.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. So it does not matter (comparatively speaking) how often humanity fails to imitate its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitful. But it does frightfully matter how often humanity changes its ideal; for then all its old failures are fruitless.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression
and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

G.K. Chesterton

#25. I believe that you get to write part of the script of your life, and some of it is written by forces beyond your control.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#26. A small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle; but, though it is quite as infinite, it is not so large.

G.K. Chesterton

#27. I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

G.K. Chesterton