Chesterton Quotes

[jeffpugh]

[quote]
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.[/quote]

[jeffpugh]

[quote]Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.[/quote]

[jeffpugh]

[quote]Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.[/quote]

[Laudate_Dominum]

Excellent selections SMM.

[laetitia crucis]

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - [i]Everlasting Man[/i]

I love that book.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote]I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I sold a human foot to some Chinese guys in a van
But I always thought that I'd see you, Bigfoot, one more time again.[/quote]

[Paddington]

"It is not criticism that embitters the world, but the absence of self-criticism."

(might not be word-for-word so...)

[Paddington]

"It is not criticism that embitters the world, but the absence of self-criticism."

(might not be word-for-word so...)