The Well and the Shallows Quotes

“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Well and the Shallows

“I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Well and the Shallows

“We must not hate humanity, or despise humanity, or refuse to help humanity; but we must not trust humanity; in the sense of trusting a trend in human nature which cannot turn back to bad things.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Well and the Shallows

“A heresy is a truth that hides all the other truths.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Well and the Shallows