More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head."
"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."
"Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it."
"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."
"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."