G.K. Chesterton

"Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable."

"We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God."

"I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward."

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."

"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable."

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."