G.K. Chesterton: "The Object Of Human Life Is Play"

"The play's the thing!"

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke — that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer

All Things Considered, “Oxford from Without” (1908) 

It is so easy to be solemn; it is so hard to be frivolous.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer

All Things Considered, “The Case for the Ephemeral” (1908)