K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
children motherhood careers
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.
knowledge complaining absurd
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
faith inspiration simple
The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
lasts found scoundrels
I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
inspirational funny travel
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
motivational sunset men
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
stars knowledge acceptance
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
doubt chains chickens
The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
love faith religious
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
support intelligence intuition
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
drinking alcohol literature
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
thinking opposites serious
Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.
spiritual art brain
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
elephants plot odd
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.