Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Gilbert Keith "G.K." Chesteron
English Writer including Philosophy, Ontology, Poetry, Play Writing, Journalism, Public Lecturing, Debating, Literary and Art Criticism, Biography, Christian Apologetics, Fantasy and Detective Fiction
"Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity."
"The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen."
"All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion."
"Art is the signature of man."
"The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all."
"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
"I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself."
"In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought. "