More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  1. The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankl…
  2. He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.
  3. Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men …
  4. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the f…
  5. The truth is that Tolstoy, with his immense genius, with his colossal faith, with his vast fearlessness and vast knowledge of life, is defi…
  6. 'Bosh,' he said, 'On what else is the whole world run but immediate impressions? What is more practical? My friend, the philosophy of this …
  7. One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in slop…
  8. Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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