The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEmployers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of menโฆIn a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.
Gilbert K. Chesterton