K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
adventure dry champagne
Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.
monday philosophy believe
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past three, but not suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.
mistake ideas nine
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
men becoming mass
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
philosophy cat thinking
...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that the cat is enviable or the mouse pitiable. We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than death. But if the mouse were a German pessimist mouse, he might not think that the cat had beaten him at all. He might think he had beaten the cat by getting to the grave first.
men boys never-quit
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
black-and-white two phrases
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.
thinking two squares
If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
silence modern tyranny
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
simplicity world modern
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
powerful passion men
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
romance insecurity strange
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
pride men political
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
men imagination quality
The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.