What did Gilbert K. Chesterton mean by: When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any. - Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy
+ Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Gold, Silver, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Preaching, Pride, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Children, Justice, Love, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Fact, Links, Missing, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ The strangest whim has seized me … After all I think I will not hang myself today. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Suicide, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Grief, Inspiration, Joy, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Cried, Cry, Spiritual Life, 0 - Gilbert K. Chesterton
+ Free verse’? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch ‘free architecture’. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Architecture, Sleep, 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
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
