Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Sanity

• Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Doe, Moral, Sanity

• A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Faith, Moral, Sanity

• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Mad, Religion

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hero, Book, Mean

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flames, Facts, Spirit

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