K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
fighting men happy-marriage
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
christian jesus reality
Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
world dear articles
Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,
failure civilization world
In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
funny friendship god
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
believe loss political
The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.
stupid believe men
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
wise wisdom men
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
men mercy paradox
...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
men one-day strange
I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
children men doctors
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.
inspirational book reading
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
heart men touching
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.
laughing violence levity
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.