I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
G.K. ChestertonTags: life books characters
Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of his own nation may have a rough resemblance to the reality. But his vision of the world is probably smaller than the world…hence he is never so inadequate as when he is universal; he is never so limited as when he generalizes. This is the fallacy in the many modern attempts at a creedless creed, at something variously described as...undenominational religion or a world faith to embrace all the faiths in the world...When a philosophy embraces everything it generally squeezes everything, and squeezes it out of shape; when it digests it necessarily assimilates.
G.K. ChestertonTags: open-mindedness multiculturalism interdenominationalism nonsectarianism
There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant.
G.K. ChestertonTags: democracy
War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.
G.K. ChestertonThe dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
G.K. ChestertonHe may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
G.K. ChestertonHumor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humor wisdom knowledge ignorance
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
G.K. ChestertonTags: catholicism catholic mass catholic-mass
By insisting specially on the immanence of God we get introspection, self-isolation, quietism, social indifference – Tibet. By insisting specially on the transcendence of God we get wonder, curiosity, moral and political adventure, righteous indignation – Christendom. Insisting that God is inside man, man is always inside himself. By insisting that God transcends man, man has transcended himself.
G.K. ChestertonEven a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.
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