Italian PM Giorgia Meloni quoted Chesterton in a speech. You can watch the speech in the video below if you want to, but the quote came from the following text:
“Common sense” by G.K. Chesterton“The dogmas we really hold are far more fantastic, and, perhaps, far more beautiful than we think.
We who are Christians never knew the great philosophic common sense which inheres in that mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us.
The great march of mental destruction will go on.
Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed.
It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them.
It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake.
Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four.
Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.
We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face.
We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible.
We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage.
We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed.”–G.K. Chesterton, Heretics (New York: John Lane, 1919), 303-305
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