1874- 1936
It's a very rainy day on the wet coast of Canada today; a good day for blogging. Sadly, our summer ended quite early and abruptly this year -about mid August.
I wanted to put up a quote from G.K. Chesterton's book, Orthodoxy, about the virtues of being married (my anniversary is coming up quickly; see #5). But as usual with this book, I could not put it down. It's probably one of the best books I think I've ever read. So instead of one, you can have twelve.
Quotes from "Orthodoxy":
1) The modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but also the doctrine by which he denounces it
2) It is easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in a village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.
3) Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be alive.
4) Tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.
5) Keeping to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as seeing one woman.
6) What is the evil of the man commonly called an optimist? ... The optimist, wishing to defend the world, will defend the indefensible. He is the jingo of the universe... He will not wash the world, but whitewash the world.
7) The moment we have a fixed heart we have a free hand.
8) That Jones shall worship the god within him means only that Jones shall worship Jones... Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards... The only fun of being Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but defiantly recognized an outer light, fair as the sun...
9) It is easy to be a modernist; as easy as it is to be a snob... It is always easy to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.
10) Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but not a single sane one... That you and the tiger are one may be a reason for being tender to a tiger. Or it may be a reason for being as cruel as a tiger.
11) ... only with original sin can we at once pity the beggar and distrust the king.
12) I want to adore the world not as one likes a looking glass, because it is one's self, but as one loves a woman, because she is entirely different.
It's a very rainy day on the wet coast of Canada today; a good day for blogging. Sadly, our summer ended quite early and abruptly this year -about mid August.
I wanted to put up a quote from G.K. Chesterton's book, Orthodoxy, about the virtues of being married (my anniversary is coming up quickly; see #5). But as usual with this book, I could not put it down. It's probably one of the best books I think I've ever read. So instead of one, you can have twelve.
Quotes from "Orthodoxy":
1) The modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but also the doctrine by which he denounces it
2) It is easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in a village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.
3) Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be alive.
4) Tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.
5) Keeping to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as seeing one woman.
6) What is the evil of the man commonly called an optimist? ... The optimist, wishing to defend the world, will defend the indefensible. He is the jingo of the universe... He will not wash the world, but whitewash the world.
7) The moment we have a fixed heart we have a free hand.
8) That Jones shall worship the god within him means only that Jones shall worship Jones... Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards... The only fun of being Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but defiantly recognized an outer light, fair as the sun...
9) It is easy to be a modernist; as easy as it is to be a snob... It is always easy to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.
10) Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but not a single sane one... That you and the tiger are one may be a reason for being tender to a tiger. Or it may be a reason for being as cruel as a tiger.
11) ... only with original sin can we at once pity the beggar and distrust the king.
12) I want to adore the world not as one likes a looking glass, because it is one's self, but as one loves a woman, because she is entirely different.
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