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“All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of Man. They refer to the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.” (All Things Considered Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault?”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed: a passage which some have considered as a prophecy of modern journalism.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“I believe firmly in the value of all vulgar notions, especially of vulgar jokes. When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and they could not pull it out.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“International peace means a peace between nations, not a peace after the destruction of nations, like the Buddhist peace after the destruction of personality. The golden age of the good European is like the heaven of the Christian: it is a place where people will love each other; not like the heaven of the Hindu, a place where they will be each other.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“It will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“Men represent the deliberative and democratic element in life. Woman represents the despotic.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“Telling the truth about the terrible struggle of the human soul is surely a very elementary part of the ethics of honesty.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“The instinct of democracy is like the instinct of one woman, wild but quite right”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“The modern instinct is that if the heart of man is evil, there is nothing that remains good. But the older feeling was that if the heart of man was ever so evil, there was something that remained good–goodness remained good.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“The primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
“What a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad.”
G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered
