K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
christian blow doors
We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.
fighting past asceticism
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.
plato
Plato was right, but not quite right.
spiritual witty truth
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
world half sometimes
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
orthodoxy morality action
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
dream men insanity
The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
religious mean practice
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
peace men nuts
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
steps stories certain
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
asks desires head heavens logician poet seeks
The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.
life-and-love great-person really-great
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
kings memories strange
Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.
divine-revelation revelations theologian
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.