"Orthodoxy" Quotes
G.K. Chesterton presents a defense of orthodox Christianity and the value of tradition in the modern world.
theology | 168 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
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.
The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.
The poet is always in revolt.
The cross can be a symbol at once of mystery and of health. A man not only of a mystic, but a mystagogue.
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.
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in.
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
A piece of chalk is a window into the universe.
The truth is that the modern world has a subliminal unity not yet understood.
