K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
democracy tradition
(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
lying simple faces
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
suicide thinking today
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
passion men postman
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
pain mistake two
It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.
country nature men
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
media world news
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
belief torture martyr
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
moral modern strengthening
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
philosophy artist world
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.
hope mean expectancy
Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.
spiritual humor ideas
When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.
kings equality men
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
men talking civilization
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.