“I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.” G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
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Not Dead Yet
Posted in G.K. Chesterton, Life on December 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Labor-Saving Language
Posted in G.K. Chesterton on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery; and it saves mental labour very much more than it ought. Scientific phrases are used like scientific wheels and piston-rods to make swifter and smoother yet the path of the comfortable. Long words go rattling by us like long railway trains. We know they are [...]
Wisdom and Folly
Posted in G.K. Chesterton on October 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Our wisdom, whether expressed in private or public, belongs to the world, but our folly belongs to those we love. G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton on Cheese
Posted in Food, G.K. Chesterton on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K. Chesterton
Chesterton on Enjoyment
Posted in G.K. Chesterton on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is always wiser to consider not so much why a thing is not enjoyable, as why we ourselves do not enjoy it. G.K. Chesterton
The Most Dangerous Thing in the World
Posted in G.K. Chesterton on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being. G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
The Truly Courageous and Free-thinking
Posted in G.K. Chesterton on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free [...]
What Really Happens in History – Chesterton
Posted in G.K. Chesterton on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory [...]
Never let a quarrel interrupt a good argument.
Posted in G.K. Chesterton on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. G.K. Chesterton
“The saints put their idealism in the right place and their realism in the right place. We have both things displaced.”
Posted in G.K. Chesterton, tagged Ahlquist, Chesterton on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[The saints] put their idealism in the right place and their realism in the right place. We have both things displaced. The saints put their dreams and sentiments into their aims, where they ought to be, and their practicality into their practice, where it ought to be. We have it backwards. Our dreams, we insist, [...]
