G. K. Chesterton (1874-11936) was an English writer. There are 10 quotes listed below.
1. "...the corruption of the priesthood occurred at the precise moment in which it changed from a minority organized to impart knowledge into a minority organized to withhold it. The great danger of decadence in journalism is almost exactly the same." (The New Priests, 1901)
2. "There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance." (Robert Browning, 1903)
3. "In the moon, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic... The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading , and that things are not what they seem." (Tolstoy, 1903)
4."The center of every man's existence is a dream." (Twelve Types, 1903)
5. "The simplification of anything is always sensational." (Varied Types, 1903)
6. "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." (A Short History of England, 1917)
7. "Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously." (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907)
8. "Every one of the great revolutionist, from Isiah to Shelly, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing tis goodness." (The Defendant, 1901)
9. "Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature." (The Defendant, 1901)
10. "Dogma does not mean the absence of thought but the end of thought." (The Victorian Age of Literature, 1913)
