Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. The only defensible war is a war of defense. The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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