K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
book men mad
It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.
stories fool rebel
I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
fighting battle glimpse
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
doe moral sanity
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
favour obvious skepticism
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
suicide waiting coward
He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
truth men scandal
There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
drinking beer animal
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
wine water wife
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."
christian atheist taste
It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.
suicidal people effort
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
timeless exaggeration ifs
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
timeless
Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
liars men news
Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.