The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Gilbert K. Chesterton