Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Madness

• Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dirty, Self, Circles

• Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Government, Law, Madness

• He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Mad, May

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

• There nearly always is a method in madness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Madness, Method

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

• In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Doe, Mirth

• Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Madness, Be Careful

• Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sex, Wish, Important

• Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flames, Facts, Spirit

• Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Giving, World

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