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“According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.” (Orthodoxy Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn’t.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”
G. K. Chesterton
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“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“The modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy like a bird in spring.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. ”
G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
