Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEither criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAll that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
Gilbert K. ChestertonCivilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton