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“Hamlet and the Psychoanalyst”

This essay had me laughing out loud at points. Top marks for Chesterton’s humor.

“I cannot fit this in very well with Freud and his theory of suppressed impulses. For I swear I never in my life suppressed the impulse to eat a jumble or to argue with a Theosophist. And as for wandering about in the Albert Hall, nobody could ever have had an impulse to do that.”

Favorite quotes from “The Romance of Rhyme”

“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”

“The time was to come when much of the imagery of the cathedrals was to be lost; but it would have mattered less that it was defaced by its enemies if it had not been already neglected by it’s friends.”

Favorite quotes from the Introduction

“The wild theorists of our time are quite unable to wander. When they talk of new roads, they are only making new ruts.”

“It is necessary to have in hand a truth to judge modern philosophies rapidly; and it is necessary to judge them very rapidly to judge them before they disappear.”

"I think tennis for women normal and football for women quite abnormal; and I am no more inconsistent than I am in having a wooden walking-stick and not a wooden hat."