What did Gilbert K. Chesterton mean by: The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
+ People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Drinking, Driving, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Democracy, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Sun, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ [A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Enemy, Lists, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Atheism, Believe, Doctors, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Passion, Powerful, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, History, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Exhilaration, Vices, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
