K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
faces looks paper
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
men gold age
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
simple way doe
There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
tea gentleman coward
Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
sky clouds people
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.
fear children ideas
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.
romance letters married
Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable
retirement people merit
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
divorce people reason
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.
love beautiful girl
The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
sex animal men
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
dog drinking men
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
racism people conviction
The people who are most bigoted are those who have no conviction at all.
love beautiful music-love
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.