Quotes by Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has bee >>

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. >>

Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, >>

Quotations about Tradition

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, >>

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about th >>

A precedent embalms a principle. >>

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.