K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
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.
politician
Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.
boat owe stormy terrible
We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
get-well recovery healthy
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
catholic doubt gone
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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.
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.
integrity dry wonder
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
retirement people merit
Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
faces looks paper
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
grateful waiting feelings
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!
telescopes world microscopes
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
steps stories certain
With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.
divine-revelation revelations theologian
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.