G. K. Chesterton @GKChestertonian
Quotes from the works of G. K. Chesterton: jolly journalist, philosopher, theologian; defender of catholicity, wonder, joy, mystery, beer and skittles. London, England. Joined May 2012-
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“I have not the slightest difficulty in imagining the world of the future taking a turn which would bring back the fact, if not the form, of witch-hunting and slavery and the persecution of heresies.“ GK Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 9 June 1934.
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own.” GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908).
“Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.” — G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man.
“They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.” G. K. Chesterton.
“A fashionable person in the twenty-first century may end up in shoes with such high heels that he (or, rather, she) practically cannot walk at all.” GK Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 17 May 1930.
“I don’t deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.” G. K. Chesterton.
“The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.” GK Chesterton, ‘In defense of babies,’ in The Defendant (1901).
“I think that most modern people are much stupider than those in the age of my father, and probably very much stupider than those in the age of my grand-father. … I believe I could even prove it, if people now were patient enough to listen to proof.” GK Chesterton, 11 Oct 1930.
“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.” GK Chesterton, The Defendant (1901).
“If we want to uproot inherent cruelties or lift up lost populations we cannot do it with the scientific theory that matter precedes mind; we can do it with the supernatural theory that mind precedes matter.” — GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy.
“The vast and shallow philosophies, the huge syntheses of humbug, all talk about ages and evolution and ultimate developments. The true philosophy is concerned with the instant. Will a man take this road or that? That is the only thing to think about, if you enjoy thinking.”
“Whenever you hear of things being unutterable and indefinable and impalpable and unnamable and subtly indescribable, then elevate your nose towards heaven and snuff up the smell of decay.” — GK Chesterton, 'The Mystagogue', in A Miscellany of Men (1912).
“We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. Hence he comes to us clad in all the careless terrors of nature; he is as strange as the stars, as reckless and indifferent as the rain. He is Man, the most terrible of the beasts.” — GK Chesterton
“And it is the whole effort of the typically modern person to escape from the street in which he lives ... He says he is feeling from his street because it is dull; he is lying. He is fleeing from his street because it is a great deal too exciting.” — GK Chesterton, Heretics.
“The special mark of the modern world is not that it is sceptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it ...” — GK Chesterton, Illustrated London News, March 15, 1919.
“Progress has been merely the persecution of the Common Man ... It is the old and ordinary person who is almost always the martyr. It is the old and ordinary person who has been more and more despoiled of all his old and ordinary rights.” — GK Chesterton, The Common Man.
“When a religious scheme is shattered [...] it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage.” — G. K. Chesterton
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“They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.” G. K. Chesterton.
It is dangerous to be alive; one very often dies of it.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
The death of the aesthetic has meant the birth of anaesthesia.
“Whenever you hear of things being unutterable and indefinable and impalpable and unnamable and subtly indescribable, then elevate your nose towards heaven and snuff up the smell of decay.” — GK Chesterton, 'The Mystagogue', in A Miscellany of Men (1912).
“The return to real thinking is often as abrupt as bumping into a man. Very often indeed (in my case) it is bumping into a man. But in any case the awakening is always emphatic and, generally speaking, it is always complete.” — GK Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1909).
@GKChestertonian @LordCodrus Thanks for this! So very true .... 'doxa' becomes 'dogma'.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. G.K. Chesterton (born on this date in 1874) #gkchesterton @GKCdaily @GKChestertonian
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“The world is upside down.” From The Poet and the Lunatics (1929), by GK Chesterton.
When I visited the Chesterton Library in 2014, which was at the Oxford Oratory at the time, I was hoping to find examples of GKC's marginalia. Turns out, he drew more than he wrote in the books he owned. I found only three books from his personal library with written marginalia.
We are always fully prepared for what has already happened. Now that it's nearly over, I know exactly how to prepare for 2020.
Hindsight really is 2020.¹ ¹ Feels like I've been waiting this whole year to use this stupid pun.
Christmas is not modern; Christmas is not Marxian; Christmas is not made on the pattern of that great age of the Machine, which promises to the masses an epoch of even greater happiness and prosperity than that to which it has brought the masses at this moment.
“We must learn to look agapeically.” (William Desmond)
Information is filled with energy but it is always a mere chaos of energy. To be too passive before it is to misunderstand our roles as translators. We are meant to take chaos and transform it into chaosmos; to interpret and reveal its dynamics within the good, within the cosmos.
“Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal ... Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front—” (GK Chesterton, TMWWT)
“... there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.” (Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday)
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