The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
G.K. ChestertonTags: travel
There are no chains of houses; there are no crowds of men. The colossal diagram of streets and houses is an illusion, the opium dream of a speculative builder. Each of these men is supremely solitary and supremely important to himself. Each of these houses stands in the centre of the world. There is no single house of all those millions which has not seemed to someone at some time the heart of all things and the end of travel.
G.K. ChestertonIf a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
G.K. ChestertonTags: philosophy
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
G.K. ChestertonWe men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.
G.K. ChestertonTags: brotherhood-of-man loyalty interdependence
Confetti, bonbons, artillery.
G.K. ChestertonIf a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.
G.K. ChestertonMen do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.
G.K. ChestertonIn science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
G.K. ChestertonThe greatest of poems is an inventory.
Every kitchen tool becomes ideal because Crusoe might have dropped it
in the sea. It is a good exercise, in empty or ugly hours of the day, to
look at anything, the coal-scuttle or the book-case, and think how happy
one could be to have brought it out of the sinking ship on to the
solitary island.
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