K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
cease happens nowadays people retirement work worst
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
england pass pay people quite smile spoken
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
two people world
There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.
people barbarians doubters
It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
nice people progress
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty.
names people finals
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
educational two people
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
two people dogma
In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.
mad people wicked
There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
law people needs
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
mean people literature
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
people knows
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
fear people atheism
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
believe people tolerance
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.