K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
theology
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
simple darkness facts
One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
love hate men
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
love men good-man
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
love pleasure crisis
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
love fun sorry
A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.
self government culture
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
selfish confused cities
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
mean men poverty
By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
men civilization medicine
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
saint culture may
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
real thinking talking
I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
fashion culture exile
It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
hustle culture strange
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.