"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
— Angels

January 1, 1970

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G. K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy" (1908), Chapter VII : The Eternal Revolution; this is sometimes paraphrased "The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly".