Clairessa

“Men fight hardest when they feel that the foe is at once an old enemy and an eternal stranger, that his atmosphere is alien and antagonistic;”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“He proposed a way of escaping from all this recurrent sorrow; and that was simply by getting rid of the delusion that is called desire. It was emphatically not that we should get what we want better by restraining our impatience for part of it, or that we should get it in a better way or in a better world.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“there is a deeper fallacy besides this obvious fact; that men need not live for food merely because they cannot live without food.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“What was the matter with the heretic Pharaoh, as with a good many other heretics, was that he probably never paused to ask himself whether there was anything in the popular beliefs and tales of people less educated than himself.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man