There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. – G.K. Chesterton
Author : G.K. Chesterton
The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in […]
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle. – G.K. Chesterton
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. – G.K. Chesterton
Culture, like science, is no protection against demons. – G.K. Chesterton
While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful fields, is so fixed in the scientific mind that it cannot resist […]
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. – G.K. Chesterton
As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly. – G.K. Chesterton