There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Tag: G.K. Chesterton
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution
Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.