K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
adventure home wild-places
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
average way agnostic
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.
discipline materialism old-fashioned
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
giving bees skeptic
The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
liberty objects
The only object of liberty is life.
friendship expression imperfection
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
friendship father hate
These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.
friendship men soul
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
friendship two individuality
. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.
friendship different different-things
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
courage men tablets
There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
courage school boys
I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
courage morning flower
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.
courage school law
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.