K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
real character appreciate
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
funny money clever
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
miracle incredibles happens
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
spiritual women wife
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".
running differences states
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
player mad imagination
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
philosophy moon men
The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
inspirational sun looks
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
men artist bombs
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
dream men thinking
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.
knowledge men doe
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
men vulgarity-is class
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
love inspirational friendship
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
night garden heaven
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.