Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Running

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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christian, Running, Order

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Differences, States

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Ideas, Nurse

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Men, Thinking

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Wine, Rivers

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Fear, Believe

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Long, Mind

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Women, Half

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Men, Skeletons

Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Running, Baby, Wine