Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.
G.K. ChestertonTags: society
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G.K. ChestertonTags: science philosophy telephone impose
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
G.K. ChestertonHe had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
G.K. ChestertonTags: art
No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.
G.K. ChestertonTags: fear
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
G.K. ChestertonTags: astronomy
Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.
G.K. ChestertonTags: poetry
It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
G.K. ChestertonTags: numbers
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
G.K. ChestertonDo not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
G.K. ChestertonTags: composure shocked-grandmothers
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