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. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, ''Keep tomorrow dark,'' and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) ''Cheat the Prophet.'' The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.
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CHESTERTON Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we p... GK CHESTERTON The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of... G.K. CHESTERTON There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. G.K. CHESTERTON Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. G.K. CHESTERTON Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to... G.K. CHESTERTON Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. G.K. CHESTERTON There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to de... G.K. CHESTERTON We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us fr... G.K. CHESTERTON We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has for... G.K. CHESTERTON A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration ... G.K. CHESTERTON Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. G.K. CHESTERTON Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This ... G.K. CHESTERTON We have never even begun to understand a people until we have found something that we do not underst... G.K. CHESTERTON Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the ab... G.K. CHESTERTON There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to... G.K. CHESTERTON White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as de... G.K. CHESTERTON The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is b... G.K. CHESTERTON They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians.... G.K. CHESTERTON Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. G.K. CHESTERTON The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and al... G.K. CHESTERTON Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the... G.K. CHESTERTON If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.
(on not perfectionism
to put things off)
. G.K CHESTERTON An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered. G.K CHESTERTON Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. G.K CHESTERTON I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of
committees. G.K CHESTERTON I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best
advice, and then going away and do... G.K CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you
win. G.K CHESTERTON To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be... G.K. CHESTERTON In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends G.K. CHESTERTON Happiness is a state of the soul; a state in which our natures are full of the wine of an ancient yo... G.K. CHESTERTON Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they... G.K. CHESTERTON Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched ... G.K. CHESTERTON The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G.K. CHESTERTON I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible... G.K. CHESTERTON Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is r... G.K. CHESTERTON Therefore I see no wrong in riding with the Nightmare to-night; she whinnies to me from the rocking ... G.K. CHESTERTON Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad... G.K. CHESTERTON The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinar... G.K. CHESTERTON Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of abo... G.K. CHESTERTON Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relat... G.K. CHESTERTON According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in m... G.K. CHESTERTON