More quotes by G.K. Chesterton

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read."
"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."
"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."