Гилберт Честертон: Актуальные цитаты

эссе «Доисторический вокзал»
Brave men are vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. But these modern cowards are all crustaceans; their hardness is all on the cover and their softness is inside.

эссе «Упорствующий в правоверии» (сборник «Истина»)
What we call the intellectual world is divided into two types of people — those who worship the intellect and those who use it.

Источник: Шар и крест

«Умеренный убийца»
Believe me, it's not the imaginative people who become insane. It's not they who are mad, even when they are morbid. They can always be woken up from bad dreams by broader prospects and brighter visions — because they are imaginative. The men who go mad are unimaginative. The stubborn stoical men who had only room for one idea and take it literally. The sort of man who seems to be silent but stuffed to bursting, congested—
Четыре праведных преступника (1929)

Эссе "О чтении"

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Источник: Неверный контур

Упорствующий в правоверии
For anybody impelled by reason and not by running with a crowd will, for instance, perceive that there are always the same arguments for a Purpose and therefore a Personality in things, if he is a thinking person. Only it is now made easy for him to admit vaguely that there may be a Purpose, while denying that there is a Personality, so long as he happens to be a very unthinking person. It is quite as certain as it ever was that life is a gift of God immensely valuable and immensely valued, and anybody can prove it by putting a pistol to the head of a pessimist.
Вариант: Цитата = Всякий, кто слушается разума, а не толпы, может догадаться, что жизнь и теперь, как и во все времена, — бесценный дар Божий; доказать это можно, приставив револьвер к голове пессимиста.