But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonImagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Gilbert K. ChestertonChristianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
Gilbert K. ChestertonDogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton