Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Imagination

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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Player, Mad, Imagination

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Imagination, Mind, Forget

"The Dagger with Wings: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Imagination, Strange, Function

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Business, Home, Imagination