Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.
G.K. Chestertonif a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
G.K. ChestertonSatire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.
G.K. ChestertonTags: science
We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is all quite regular and official, for most tombstones, like most ballot papers, are marked with a cross.
G.K. Chestertontradition is only democracy extended through time.
G.K. Chestertona man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced when he finds that everything proves it.
G.K. ChestertonI did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
G.K. ChestertonAnd though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
G.K. Chestertonsomehow one must love the world without being worldly.
G.K. ChestertonI prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form.
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