Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Reality

• Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Jesus, Reality

• A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

• Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reality, Men, Progress

• Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reality, Facts, Spirit

• Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Philosophy, Reality

  1908 Orthodoxy, ch.3.

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reality, Things In Life, Romance

• Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Reality, Choices, Dignity

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