"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

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“Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Can’t you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front.”
- G.K. Chesterton

"Only where death and eternity are intensely present can human beings fully feel their fellowship."

G.K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature. 1913. London: Oxford UP, 1947.  (via eudaimonia)

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"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
— G.K. Chesterton"

— G.K. Chesterton

"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."

G. K. Chesterton

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"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God."

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"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

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"I think we have a reason for grave concern and apprehension when there is a tendency for civic and public life to become more coarse and brutal than private and educational life. It is a dark and sinister omen when men begin to be ruder to strangers than they are to their friends."

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

—G.K. Chesterton

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From Project Gutenberg’s Confessions of a Caricaturist, by Oliver Herford

G. K. Chesterton

When Plain Folk, such as you or I,
See the Sun sinking in the sky,
We think it is the Setting Sun,
But Mr. Gilbert Chesterton
Is not so easily misled.
He calmly stands upon his head,
And upside down obtains a new
And Chestertonian point of view,
Observing thus, how from his toes
The sun creeps nearer to his nose,
He cries with wonder and delight,
“How Grand the SUNRISE is to-night!”




Picture of O. H. and
Hafiz, the “Persian Kitten,”
by James Montgomery Flagg.