Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Life's all about perceptions.

What you sees, is what you gets.

Life is but thought.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Light knows when you're looking at it.

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.