His sharp wit and his penchant for paradox are his trademark. In Orthodoxy he likens his rediscovery of the Christian faith to an explorer who set out for the South Seas but instead miscalculated his course and landed back in England.
Mysticism keeps men sane.
The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and the contradiction along with them.