K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
certain skeptic clear
It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
intelligent sections seems
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
nature book enchantment
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
nature spring environment
Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
spirituality cry cried
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
honesty honest solemnity
Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
dream past men
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
museums self intellectual
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
doctors evil disease
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
enemy events fit
There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.
christian dog gone
At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
integrity dry wonder
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
paradise green way
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
rights long people
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.