Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Simplicity

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

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

Simplicity, World, Modern

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

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

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Simplicity, Complexity

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.