Orthodoxy
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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

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

G.K. Chesterton

The poet is always in revolt.

G.K. Chesterton

The cross can be a symbol at once of mystery and of health. A man not only of a mystic, but a mystagogue.

G.K. Chesterton

The old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

G.K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in.

G.K. Chesterton

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

G.K. Chesterton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

G.K. Chesterton

A piece of chalk is a window into the universe.

G.K. Chesterton

The truth is that the modern world has a subliminal unity not yet understood.

G.K. Chesterton