K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
men might know-how
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be...
evil age may
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
duality
I am at one with my duality.
pay one-woman
Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
light looks one-thing
The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.
kind conviction huge
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
eggs flying connections
There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
heart men brain
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain
mean thinking connected
Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.
realizing modernity
The moderns do not realize modernity.
believe people tolerance
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
running baby wine
Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
mean home ifs
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
clever next tasks
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.