K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
men worst knows
You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
scotland blood poison
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
brother thinking years
My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.
christian sex erotic
It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.
men machines lasts
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
men soldier good-man
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
rights citizens relation
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.
joy secret surprise
Surprise is the secret of joy.
discovery vastness modern-life
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
two kind modern
There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
mother progress problem
Progress is the mother of all problems.
enemy lists lasts
[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
children opposites laughing
Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
men simplicity complexity
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.