K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
education teaching school
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
spiritual destiny literature
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
yawning boredom silence
A yawn is a silent shout.
inspirational real mean
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
philosophy mean practice
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
sorry apology men
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
sensational simplification
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
fear people atheism
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
mean class giving
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
sports golf guitar
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
religion tests childlike-faith
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
kids intellectual literature
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
inspirational education school
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
courage veterans-day strong
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.