Quotes from G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

[The materialist] thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think [the materialist] a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

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 it his head that splits.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.