In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton

by G.K. Chesterton

is not a negation of intelligence to think that all experience is a dream. It is not unintelligent to think it a delusion, as some Buddhists do; let alone to think it a product of creative will, as Christians do.

The wickedest work in this world is symbolised not by a wine glass but by a looking-glass; and it is not done in public-houses, but in the most private of all private houses; which is a house of mirrors.