“The center of every man's existence is a dream.”

— G. K. Chesterton, Twelve Types (1903), 'Sir Walter Scott'

About G. K. Chesterton

1874 – 1936

English writer, critic and Christian apologist, author of the Father Brown mysteries and 'Orthodoxy'.

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

“A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream?”

“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas.”

“When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.”