The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G.K. ChestertonThey hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.
G.K. ChestertonThe man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
G.K. ChestertonThrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.
G.K. ChestertonEfficiency," of course, is futile .... It has no philosophy for incidents before they happen; therefore it has no power of choice. An act can only be successful or unsuccessful when it is over; if it is to begin, it must be, in the abstract, right or wrong. There is no such thing as backing a winner; for he cannot be a winner when he is backed. There is no such thing as fighting on the winning side; one fights to find out which is the winning side. If any operation has occurred, that operation was efficient.... A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back. If he only likes victory he must always come late for the battle. For the man of action there is nothing but idealism.
G.K. ChestertonThis is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common, not the things they hold separately. And the second principle is merely this: that the political instinct or desire is one of these things which they hold in common. Falling in love is more poetical than dropping into poetry. The democratic contention is that government ... is a thing like falling in love, and not a thing like dropping into poetry. It is not something analogous to playing the church organ, painting on vellum,..., being Astronomer Royal, and so on. For these things we do not wish a man to do at all unless he does them well. It is, on the contrary, a thing analogous to writing one's own love-letters or blowing one's own nose. These things we want a man to do for himself, even if he does them badly. .... In short, the democratic faith is this: that the most terribly important things must be left to ordinary men themselves--the mating of the sexes, the rearing of the young, the laws of the state. This is democracy; and in this I have always believed.
G.K. ChestertonWe are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.
G.K. ChestertonTags: wonder attitude appreciation
My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.
G.K. ChestertonMan must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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