K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
weather tree insulting
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
war men evil
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
art stars tree
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.
struggle mean men
A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
democracy tradition
(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
lying simple faces
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
suicide thinking today
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
passion men postman
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
pain mistake two
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
country nature men
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
media world news
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
belief torture martyr
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
moral modern strengthening
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
philosophy artist world
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.