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“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I went to the theatre with the author of a successful play. He insisted on explaining everything. He told me what to watch, the details of the direction, the errors of the property man, the foibles of the star. He anticipated all of my surprises and ruined the evening. Never again! And mark you, the greatest author of all made no such mistake.”
― Christopher Morley

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“A great many of those who "debunk" traditional or (as they would say) "sentimental" values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes...it cuts its own throat.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated”
― C. S. Lewis

“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ”
― Albert Einstein

“You’ll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger – no supper, no breakfast.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice