The museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray. There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied […]
The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. There is a very real thing which may be called the love of humanity; in our time it exists almost entirely among what are […]
Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.
