Home / Quotes / Quote by G.K. Chesterton

Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”

Quote by G.K. Chesterton

Work

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Browse famous quotes and profile details for G.K. Chesterton. more

You May Also Like

“Things as they appear every day and as they are engraved in our memory, facts and occurrences as they are perceived by senses, create an intricate labyrinth in the mind. The way how things are experienced in our environment and how they react in the arsenal of our imagination, creates a torrent of inspiring ideas that flood the speedy highways of our brains. ( " Labyrinth of the mind " )”

Mind Ideas Imagination Environment Memory Senses Labyrinth Brains

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“People are seen through the stained glass window of our imagination. ( "The hidden sides of his character" )”

People Character Imagination See Hidden Stained Glass Window

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“...much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.”

Philosophy Religion

Book:Transformation of Man

Source: Transformation of Man

“When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ("Back garden of a dream")”

Ideas Dream Imagination Integrity Shapes Setting Landscape Convert Create Lose Misty Outlandish Hazy Forms Evaporate Back Garden William Turner

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.”

Imagination Memory

Book:Turtles All the Way Down

Source: Turtles All the Way Down

“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We aren't equipped for the possibility that they might be worse. But I guess that would be asking too much. It must be an evolutionary stopgap - if we were all so specifically, vividly aware of what might go horribly wrong, we would none of us have children at all.”

Children Imagination Parenting Natalism

Book:A Little Life

Source: A Little Life

“In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled garden of our imagination, no stalking horses can perturb the rainbow in our mind or fade out its bright colors reflecting in the blue sky of our memory. ("Alpha and Omega")”

Love Mind Imagination Garden Memory Rainbow Colors Blue Sky Bright Reflect Alpha And Omega In The Beginning The Word Fade Out Perturb Stalking Horses Sun Dappled

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Tuesday, November 17th. 1896 ... I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.”

Imagination Childhood Nostalgia Fairies

Book:The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897

Source: The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881-1897

“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life. ("Into a new life")”

World Life Imagination Power Expectations Manage Dots Script Withering Connect Rewrite Creaking At The Seams

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“As we walk through life, fleeting emotional episodes may keep on twinkling, curl up in the hive of our recollection and enrich our imagination. In the same vein, esthetic allurement and poetic gracefulness may possess us, besiege our mind, light up our thinking and shape our future. ( Über alle Gipfeln ist Ruh”)”

Mind Imagination Emotional Poetic Fleeting Recollection Twinkling Gracefulness Hive Esthetic

Author:Erik Pevernagie