Orthodoxy Quotes

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast'; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:love beauty

“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

topic:love

“In the fairy tale an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened, and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten, and cities perish. A lamp is lit, and love flies away. A flower is plucked, and human lives are...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:happiness

“perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.”

― 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

topic:reality reason faith

“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

topic:reality

“These 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

topic:nature

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:reason imagination

“there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:writing work reading

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:politics faith

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