K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
sea sick world
There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
song sound break
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
miracle doctrine accepting
The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
mother essence steps
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
world worldly
somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
art essence long
Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe.
men world ifs
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
vision saws monsters
And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
trying littles lasts
I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.
real roots drawing
Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.
buddhism doubt literature
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
doubt enlightenment goes-on
In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.
lying men creative
There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
mean government cynical
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.