Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Simplicity

• As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simplicity, Leaving, Insane

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

• Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Respect, Real, People

• Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Real, Science

• To be simple is the best thing in the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Sweat, Simplicity

• To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Simplicity, World

• There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, Men, Nuts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

• We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heart, Humility, People

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

• For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simplicity, Should, Chiefs

  "All Things Considered". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1908.

• Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Simplicity, Complexity

• Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Kings, Men

• The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simplicity, World, Modern

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