Best Gilbert K. Chesterton Thoughts
- The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes… Aesthete
- Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men… Appeal
- When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them. Advice
- I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event. Advice
- Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. Comparative
- My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it… Antagonism
- Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. Afraid
- The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. All
- Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is… Air
- None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them. Any
- I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even… Cult
- The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… Alive
- To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions. Action
- This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities. Age
- The past is not what it was. Cult
- [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution. Generation
- War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you. Best
- How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable. Grow
- America is the only country ever founded on a creed. America
- The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which… America
- Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. Cannot Govern
- If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence. Actual
- He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. Cannot See
- For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. Dull
- It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight… Been
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