K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
equality discovery cost
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.
spring flower eye
Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.
goodness symbols
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God
two luxury different
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
defeated disadvantages conqueror
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
issues principles moral
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
elephants plot odd
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
cosmos would-be hammers
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
pride thunder
Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.
church states church-and-state
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church
imagination mind forget
All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
defeat defeated crosses
The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.
kings equality men
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
moral modern strengthening
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.