Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. Coincidences are spiritual puns. Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. Half a truth is better than no politics. Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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