K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
may saint looks
The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
joy
We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
fall men whales
Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."
mistake men inferiority
A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
thinking may crime
You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
believe men problem
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
certain uncertainty
Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
hate philosophy real
Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.
judging mind might
And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
citizens institutions horrible
An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
voice christ weak
Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.
men birth tradition
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
believe opportunity giving
Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.
atheism theological
Atheism is too theological.