K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
reason realism lost
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
nice people progress
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it nasty.
favour obvious skepticism
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
timeless exaggeration ifs
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
timeless
Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
dull lasts politician
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
numbers peasants millionaire
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
hustle culture strange
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
saint culture may
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
numbers pay inspired
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
economic family-farms farms
You can't have the family farm without the family.
spirituality cry cried
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
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.
integrity dry wonder
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.