He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men. Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton More Quotes From Gilbert K. Chesterton It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion. Gilbert K. Chesterton artist philosophy world If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. Gilbert K. Chesterton strengthening modern morality The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. Gilbert K. Chesterton torture martyr belief Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London. Gilbert K. Chesterton nature men country It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. Gilbert K. Chesterton pain mistake two Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men. Gilbert K. Chesterton postman passion men The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today. Gilbert K. Chesterton suicide today thinking Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them. Gilbert K. Chesterton simple faces lying (Tradition) is the democracy of the dead. Gilbert K. Chesterton tradition democracy A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man. Gilbert K. Chesterton struggle men mean The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star. Gilbert K. Chesterton stars tree art Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease. Gilbert K. Chesterton evil men war There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another. Gilbert K. Chesterton insulting tree weather Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. Gilbert K. Chesterton dogma doe mean There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic. Gilbert K. Chesterton boredom quality humanity The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears. Gilbert K. Chesterton laughter humor ideas Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity. Gilbert K. Chesterton humorous men funny Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire. Gilbert K. Chesterton autumn memories believe All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe. Gilbert K. Chesterton matter men believe A faith is that which is able to survive a mood. Gilbert K. Chesterton mood able
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