Quotes on history

“Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”

G. K. Chesterton
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“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”

Gk Chesterton
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“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”

Gk Chesterton
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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”

Gk Chesterton
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“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

G. K. Chesterton
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“Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.”

Gk Chesterton
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“To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome.”

Gk Chesterton
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“Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction…For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.”

Lord Byron
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“It has often been said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”

Gk Chesterton
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history of this quote “We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.” by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill
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