Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.
Gilbert K. Chesterton[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
Gilbert K. Chesterton