Delphi Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton Quotes

“He treated the man after the manner of collectors and other mad men, that is to say, he carefully and with a sort of anguish selected the best roots from the less excellent, praised some, disparaged others, made a subtle scale ranging from a thrilling worth and rarity to a degraded insignificance, and then bought them all.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: PergamonMedia

“Atheism became really possible in that abnormal time; for atheism is abnormality. It is not merely the denial of a dogma. It is the reversal of a subconscious assumption in the soul; the sense that there is a meaning and a direction in the world it sees.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Delphi Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton

“mythology is a search; it is something that combines a recurrent desire with a recurrent doubt, mixing a most hungry sincerity in the idea of seeking for a place with a most dark and deep and mysterious levity about all the places found.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Delphi Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton