K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
body destroying difficult health preserve trouble trying
The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
cease happens nowadays people retirement work worst
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
bottle crack fish hath man sauce seen stand tea treat
But who hath seen the Grocer Treat housemaids to his tea Or crack a bottle of fish sauce Or stand a man to cheese? Gilbert K
height style
He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.
miracles wonderful
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.
cute-love loved man short sweet-love
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
discovered exuberant nonsense round
Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.
progress settled simply
As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
england pass pay people quite smile spoken
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. / For we are the people of England, that never have spoken yet.
powerful stupid race
An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.
night men race
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism — the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.
religious philosophy philosophical
Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion.
block men evil
The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries , if the world is evil we must be conservatives . These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere , since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.
real men law
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.