K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
legends chiefs century
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
healing problem blind
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.
real science doctors
I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth. ...
taken mad long
A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane...
certain one-thing
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
effort church heresy
Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
kings pennies divine
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.
boat
We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.
ideas catholic may
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
spiritual style coincidence
All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable....
mean justice charity
It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.
mind theology humans
To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
government aristocracy educated
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
opposites interesting illuminating
When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.