But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAll government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONModern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONAgainst a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONI never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONChastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON