The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.
Gilbert K. Chesterton