More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller"
"We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget."
"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."