"Whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty. Thus, many embrace Christian Science sole
The Anchoress has been posting some G. K. Chesterton quotes and I like this one. “Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,...
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) British novelist and journalist
“Twenty million young women rose to their feet with the cry We will not be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) British novelist and journalist
“Of all the modern phenomena, the most monstrous and ominous, the most manifestly rotting with disease, the most grimly prophetic of destruction, the most clearly and unmistakably inspired by evil spirits, the most instantly and awfully overshadowed by the wrath of heaven, the most near to madness...
“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) British novelist and journalist
"For human beings, being children, have the childish willfulness and the childish secrecy. And they never have from the beginning of the world done what the wise men have seen to be inevitable . . . . Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful.Men are men, but Man is a woman."--G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hillfeed
