More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a t…
  2. A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
  3. Other ages have seen the day conquer the candle-light and then the candle-light conquer the day. Again and again, before our time, men have…
  4. It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a t…
  5. 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.' The civilisation of antiquity was the whole world: and men no more dr…
  6. I am convinced that if we could tell the supernatural story of Christ word for word as of a Chinese hero, call him the Son of Heaven instea…
  7. We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outs…
  8. Now, as it is with the monster that is called a horse, so it is with the monster that is called a man. ... the really detached consideratio…

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