K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
time men orthodox
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
time sleep thinking
Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
time men young
No man knows he is young while he is young.
anger party fury
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes.
anger fighting names
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.
christian joy secret
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
wise silly princess
The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
attention paradox standing
Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
philosophy humanity made
I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.
inspiring new-year inspiration
the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
mean liberty superstitions
The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.
spiritual fall buddhism
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.
lying book nurse
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
sadness world reason
The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.