The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare
His is that terrible theism which can imagine nothing else but deity, and which denies altogether the outlines of human personality and human will.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Heretics
"I am the man who knows too much to know anything, or, at any rate, to do anything," said Horne Fisher. "I don't mean especially about Ireland. I mean about England. I mean about the whole way we are governed, and perhaps the only way we can be governed.
G.K. Chesterton • The Man Who Knew Too Much (Xist Classics)
For the glory of this world is a very small and priggish affair, and these men are too large to get in line with it.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
For all kinds of social purposes he has the calculable orbit of the man in the caste or the servile state; but in the story of his own soul he is still pursuing, at great peril, his own adventure.
