More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sa…
  2. Spiritual doctrines do not actually limit the mind as do materialistic denials. Even if I believe in immortality I need not think about it.…
  3. There is a very special sense in which materialism has more restrictions than spiritualism. Mr. McCabe thinks me a slave because I am not a…
  4. The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme…
  5. The materialist philosophy (whether true or not) is certainly much more limiting than any religion. In one sense, of course, all intelligen…
  6. It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that …
  7. Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians …
  8. Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense.

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