Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Today

• Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  "What's Wrong With The World". Part Four: Education: Or the Mistake About the Child. Ch. 4: The Truth About Education. Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

• What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hard Work, Humility, Men

• While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Cheer, Party

• The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Vices, Today, Exhilaration

  The Defendant "A Defence of Humility" (1901)

• The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suicide, Thinking, Today

  1915 'Ballade of Suicide'.

• The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Block, Men, Evil

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

• I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Happy Times, Today

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