K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
doctors evil disease
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
museums self intellectual
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
philosophy real men
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.
dream past men
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
honesty honest solemnity
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
morning pain mistake
Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
wise beach ocean
Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
baby children mean
Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
clever stupid men
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
spirituality cry cried
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
reality facts spirituality
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
long spirituality mystery
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
men gun power
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
reality men progress
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.