K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
nature spring environment
Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
nature book enchantment
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
experience and-love exhausted
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
faith men bows
Man is at his tallest when he bows.
beer together fit
In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.
beer dragons saint-george
Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
love-you
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
silence unbearable silence-is
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
acceptance humanity kinship
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
intelligent sections seems
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
giving-up dont-give-up instant
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
justice education-for-all chiefs
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
atheist world doe
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
atheist believe men
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.