K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
summer beer men
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
teaching wine beer
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.
forgiveness im-sorry hurt
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
leadership thank-you gratitude
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
teacher educational teaching
Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.
buddhism doubt literature
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
christian joy secret
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
time men young
No man knows he is young while he is young.
time sleep thinking
Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
nature wine men
For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.
progress age minorities
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
theology
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
mistake fads noble
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
half vices allies
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.