Clairessa

“it is their faith that the only ultimate thing is fear and therefore that the very heart of the world is evil. They believe that death is stronger than life, and therefore dead things must be stronger than living things; whether those dead things are gold and iron and machinery or rocks and rivers and forces of nature.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“Mysticism conceives something transcending experience; religion seeks glimpses of a better good or a worse evil than experience can give.”
― 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

“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