Philosophy Quote by G.K. Chesterton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.”

“Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.”

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

“The man who kills a man kills a man.”

“He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”

“In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)”

“While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man’s nature—those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations.”

“Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”