Gilbert K. Chesterton ( 10 of 30 )
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to read more
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take read more
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
No man knows he is young while he is young.
No man knows he is young while he is young.
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the read more
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
