K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
long metaphysical damn
The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."
years doctrine sin
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
dark past thinking
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.
class community firsts
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.
spiritual men soul
The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
religious literature world
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.
book sentences essays
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
gratitude men joyful
Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.
integrity apology men
There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
wise fall men
THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly ...
men fists posture
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
gains attention paradox
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
foundation digestion
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
beautiful music-love speed
There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.