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“For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity.”
― Orthodoxy [with Biographical Introduction]
― Orthodoxy [with Biographical Introduction]
“I found that the very people who said that mankind was one church from Plato to Emerson were the very people who said that morality had changed altogether, and that what was right in one age was wrong in another.”
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“It is absurd to say that you are especially advancing freedom when you only use free thought to destroy free will.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“The Food of the Gods" is the tale of "Jack the Giant-Killer" told from the point of view of the giant. This has not, I think, been done before in literature; but I have little doubt that the psychological substance of it existed in fact. I have little doubt that the giant whom Jack killed did regard himself as the Superman. It is likely enough that he considered Jack a narrow and parochial person who wished to frustrate a great forward movement of the life-force.”
― Heretics: Illustrated Centennial Edition
― Heretics: Illustrated Centennial Edition
“Have you ever noticed this 鈥 that people never answer what you say? They answer what you mean 鈥 or what they think you mean.”
― A Father Brown Mystery: The Invisible Man
― A Father Brown Mystery: The Invisible Man
“To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance. Of all these great limitations and frameworks which fashion and create the poetry and variety of life, the family is the most definite and important.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
“There are commonwealths, plainly to be distinguished here and there in history, which pass from prosperity to squalor, or from glory to insignificance, or from freedom to slavery, not only in silence, but with serenity. The face still smiles while the limbs, literally and loathsomely, are dropping from the body. These are peoples that have lost the power of astonishment at their own actions. When they give birth to a fantastic fashion or a foolish law, they do not start or stare at the monster they have brought forth. They have grown used to their own unreason; chaos is their cosmos; and the whirlwind is the breath of their nostrils. These nations are really in danger of going off their heads en masse; of becoming one vast vision of imbecility, with toppling cities and crazy countrysides, all dotted with industrious lunatics.”
― In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
― In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton
“En todas partes podemos intuir, por ejemplo, la presencia de un odio m铆stico a la idea de la ni帽ez. La gente entender铆a mejor la furia popular contra las brujas si recordaran que la maldad que normalmente se les atribuye era la de impedir el nacimiento de los ni帽os.”
― El Hombre Eterno (Philosophiae Memoria n潞 11)
― El Hombre Eterno (Philosophiae Memoria n潞 11)
“Just as they became unnatural by worshipping nature, so they actually became unmanly by worshipping man.”
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“And, similarly, if the cosmos of the materialist is the real cosmos, it is not much of a cosmos. The thing has shrunk. The deity is less divine than many men; and (according to Haeckel) the whole of life is something much more grey, narrow, and trivial than many separate aspects of it. The parts seem greater than the whole.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“The modern world is madder than any satires on it.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
“The brute repose of Nature, the passionate cunning of man, the strongest of earthly metals, the wierdest of earthly elements, the unconquerable iron subdued by its only conqueror, the wheel and the ploughshare, the sword and the steam-hammer, the arraying of armies and the whole legend of arms, all these things are written, briefly indeed, but quite legibly, on the visiting-card of Mr. Smith.”
― The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
― The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
― The Ballad of the White Horse
― The Ballad of the White Horse
“I have attempted in a vague and personal way, in a set of mental pictures rather than in a series of deductions, to state the philosophy in which I have come to believe. I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.”
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“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.”
― All Things Considered
― All Things Considered
“And it seemed to me that existence was itself so very eccentric a legacy that I could not complain of not understanding the limitations of the vision when I did not understand the vision they limited.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“At any street corner, we may meet a man who utters the frantic blasphemous statement that he may be wrong. Every day one comes across somebody that says: of course, his views may not be the right ones. Of course, his views must be the right ones or, they're not his views!”
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“Mr. McCabe thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think Mr. McCabe a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies. But if we examine the two vetoes we shall see that his is really much more of a pure veto than mine.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“Dnes se 艡铆k谩, 啪e myslitel茅 nemohou naj铆t odpov臎膹 na z谩hadu n谩bo啪enstv铆. Nesn谩z v拧ak nen铆 v tom, 啪e by nemohli naj铆t odpov臎膹, nesn谩z je v tom, 啪e nemohou naj铆t onu z谩hadu.”
― Moudrost a vtip G.K. Chestertona: paradoxy, aforismy a post艡ehy
― Moudrost a vtip G.K. Chestertona: paradoxy, aforismy a post艡ehy
“But, after all, the real specialist on Cannibalism is the Cannibal. Nobody could be more swiftly and splendidly on the spot than he is, when there is any Cannibalism going forward. The objection to the Cannibal as a judge of Cannibalism is not that he is ignorant of Cannibalism, or remote from Cannibalism, or not on the spot as a specialist in Cannibalism. It is that he is just the least tiny little bit biased.”
― Avowals and Denials - A Book of Essays
― Avowals and Denials - A Book of Essays
“They believe that the punishment has created the crime. They believe that if a man seduced seven women he would naturally walk away as blameless as the flowers of spring. They believe that if a man picked a pocket he would naturally feel exquisitely good. These I call the innocent section.鈥 鈥淥h!鈥 said Syme.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday
― The Man Who Was Thursday
“That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy.”
― Manalive
― Manalive
“Zar mislite kako se ja nemam pravo boriti za Notting Hill, Vi, 膷ija se engleska vlada tako 膷esto borila za budala拧tine? Ako, kao 拧to Va拧i bogati prijatelji tvrde, nema bogova, a nebo iznad nas je mra膷no, za 拧to bi se drugo 膷ovjek trebao boriti, nego za mjesto koje je bilo rajski vrt njegovog djetinjstva i kratki raj njegove prve ljubavi? Ako ni hramovi, niti sveta pisma nisu sveta, 拧to je sveto ako 膷ovjekova vlastita mladost nije sveta?”
― Napoleon od Notting Hilla
― Napoleon od Notting Hilla
“Nevertheless, there is a queer quality in that time [The Medieval Age]; which, while it was international was also internal and intimate. War, in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.”
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“I'll tell you what, you fellows," said the sprawling gentleman, confidentially, while Evan's agonized ears heard behind him the first paces of the pursuit, "if you really are, as you say, in a hurry, I know what it is to be in a hurry--Lord, what a hurry I was in when we all came out of Cartwright's rooms--if you really are in a hurry"--and he seemed to steady his voice into a sort of solemnity--"if you are in a hurry, there's nothing like a good yacht for a man in a hurry."
"No doubt you're right," said MacIan, and dashed past him in despair. The head of the pursuing host was just showing over the top of the hill behind him. Turnbull had already ducked under the intoxicated gentleman's elbow and fled far in front.
"No, but look here," said Mr. Wilkinson, enthusiastically running after MacIan and catching him by the sleeve of his coat. "If you want to hurry you should take a yacht, and if"--he said, with a burst of rationality, like one leaping to a further point in logic--"if you want a yacht--you can have mine.”
― The Ball and the Cross
"No doubt you're right," said MacIan, and dashed past him in despair. The head of the pursuing host was just showing over the top of the hill behind him. Turnbull had already ducked under the intoxicated gentleman's elbow and fled far in front.
"No, but look here," said Mr. Wilkinson, enthusiastically running after MacIan and catching him by the sleeve of his coat. "If you want to hurry you should take a yacht, and if"--he said, with a burst of rationality, like one leaping to a further point in logic--"if you want a yacht--you can have mine.”
― The Ball and the Cross
“驴C贸mo conseguiremos que el mundo nos asombre al mismo tiempo que nos sentimos en 茅l como en casa?”
― Ortodoxia (Esenciales)
― Ortodoxia (Esenciales)
“Simple secularists still talk as if the Church had introduced a sort of schism between reason and religion. The truth is that the Church was actually the first thing that ever tried to combine reason and religion.”
― The Everlasting Man
― The Everlasting Man
“With the exception of the Marquis, all the men were in sombre and solemn morning-dress, with hats like black chimney-pots; the little Doctor especially, with the addition of his black spectacles, looked like an undertaker in a farce. Syme could not help feeling a comic contrast between this funereal church parade of apparel and the rich and glistening meadow, growing wild flowers everywhere. But, indeed, this comic contrast between the yellow blossoms and the black hats was but a symbol of the tragic contrast between the yellow blossoms and the black business.”
― The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
― The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
“A young man may keep himself from vice by continually thinking of disease. He may keep himself from it also by continually thinking of the Virgin Mary. There may be question about which method is the more reasonable, or even about which is the more efficient. But surely there can be no question about which is the more wholesome.”
― G. K. CHESTERTON Ultimate Collection: 200+ Novels, Historical Works, Theological Books, Essays, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Autobiography, Father Brown Mysteries, The Napoleon of Notting Hill鈥.
― G. K. CHESTERTON Ultimate Collection: 200+ Novels, Historical Works, Theological Books, Essays, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Autobiography, Father Brown Mysteries, The Napoleon of Notting Hill鈥.
“But the reason we fly from the city is not in reality that it is not poetical; it is that its poetry is too fierce, too fascinating and too practical in its demands.”
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