K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
temptation too-much noble
The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
sex wish important
Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
strong heart apology
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
men long doe
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
play life-is human-life
The true object of human life is play.
player mad chess
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
betrayal artist sincerity
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
compassion animal tribes
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.
anger men may
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
sacrifice self desire
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
stars distance science
Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."
food science important
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
science law america
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America..
men demand potatoes
For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.