The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOnly friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMaking the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.
Gilbert K. Chesterton