A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton