Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Ideality is the avant-courier of the mind.

Imagination is the air of mind.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.

Nebraska people have the heart and power to create real beauty and art if they will only wake up and do it.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.