Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPeople who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.
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. Chesterton