Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.
Gilbert K. Chesterton