What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFrom the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvery true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.
Gilbert K. Chesterton