Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
Gilbert K. ChestertonImagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
Gilbert K. ChestertonComforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton