Quotes from Orthodoxy by G.K.Chesterton

“…I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.”

“How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it?”

“We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.”

“I wish to set forth my faith as particularly answering this double spiritual need, the need for that mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar which Christendom has rightly called romance.”

“I am a man who with the utmost daring discovered what had been discovered before.”

“I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.”

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess players do.”

“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.”