A cake is a symbol, and anyone who has lived at all knows that symbols are the only things that are real.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
We are constantly assured that the churches are empty because preachers insist too much upon doctrine. But it will be long before anyone ventures to suggest that the novels are unreadable because the novelists insist too much upon narrative.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
This is the real and strange history of human inconsistency; it changes color like a chameleon. The throng that cried 'Hosanna' are ready to cry 'Crucify.'Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
Progress is not an illegitimate word, but it is logically evident that it is illegitimate for us. It is a sacred word, a word which could only rightfully be used by rigid believers in a divine unity.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
We only hear of the new ideas that fit in with the old ideas.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.Heretics by G. K. Chesterton