«Ciò che comunemente chiamiamo mondo intellettuale si divide in due categorie di persone: coloro che venerano l’intelletto e coloro che lo usano. Vi sono eccezioni, ma, solitamente, non si tratta delle stesse persone. Coloro che usano l’intelletto non lo venerano, lo conoscono troppo bene. Coloro che venerano l’intelletto, non lo usano, come è dimostrato dai discorsi che fanno quando parlano»
Chesterton, riproposto da Cristiano Nisoli
#Chesterton
À l’Épiphanie, l’or, l’encens et la myrrhe disent l’essentiel de la foi chrétienne
"It tingled with truth and it divided truth from error with a blade like ice; but all that was left had never felt so much alive. It was as if all joy were a jewel in the heart of an iceberg. The priest hardly understood his own mood as he advanced deeper and deeper into the green gloaming, drinking deeper and deeper draughts of that virginal vivacity of the air. Some forgotten muddle and morbidity seemed to be left behind, or wiped out as the snow had painted out the footprints of the man of blood. As he shuffled homewards through the snow, he muttered to himself: 'And yet he is right enough about there being a white magic, if he only knows where to look for it.'"
- G. K. Chesterton, "The Dagger with Wings"
#BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #Book #Literature #Fiction #Mystery #GKChesterton #Chesterton
A quotation from G. K. Chesterson
For there are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
Essay (1921-10-15), “Child Psychology and Nonsense,” closing words, Illustrated London News, “Our Notebook” column
More info about this quote: wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-k…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chesterton #gkchesterton #academia #amusement #childpsychology #childrearing #literature #education #fun #imagination #nonsense #nurseryrhymes #pedagogy #pomposity #psychology
The choice of language isn't going to help much if the people writing the rusty replacements for decades-old tools don't bother to understand the security issues and attack surfaces that led to the design of those tools in the first place.
Similarly, Linux distributions shipping #screensaver implementations that are essentially nothing but a login-bypass mechanism that wastes CPU/GPU cycles.
#Rust #C #secure #design #tool #software #XScreenSaver #attack #Chesterton #ChestertonsFence #fence
Distributism - utopian dream, or a way forward? The latest Radical Simple Living Podcast (series 3 episode 4) in any of the normal podcast places, or here -
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/raylovegrove/episodes/2025-11-02T07_01_51-08_00
#Distributism #SimpleLiving #Chesterton #Tolkien #CSLewis #podcast
The Ballad Of The White Horse With No Name
#unreadbookasong
#HashtagGames
#Chesterton
A new episode of the Radical Simple Living Podcast is up and running. S3E2 "Cherry Picking, or Gold Mining?" You can listen in your regular podcast places, or follow this link https://www.podomatic.com/.../2025-09-26T08_37_37-07_00
Ісус пообіцяв своїм учням три речі ...
Гілберт К. Честертон
Jesus promised his disciples three things ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/jiwilanami
#Ісус #учні #віра #цитата #Честертон #Jesus #disciples #faith #quote #Chesterton
Bien, toda la parábola y sentido de esto es la siguiente: afirmar que debemos recomenzar todo de nuevo, y recomenzar por el otro extremo.
Yo comienzo con el cabello de una chiquilla.
#Chesterton
https://ineditviable.blogspot.com/2020/09/parabola-del-pelo.html
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced; but these are too humble to be convinced.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Chesterton was right.
Hoy he recibido en el paraíso, que algunos llaman biblioteca, una visita especial. Yo noté primero algo así como un #saboraMadrid y, antes de verlo, escuché:《Este es un sitio estupendo para bailar claqué 》. Y yo lo dejé hacer. Bienvenido a tu casa Poty Castillo #Poty .
Por cierto, llegó Poty justo cuando habíamos encontrado un muy antiguo libro de #Chesterton, "El regreso de don Quijote" en edición de 1947. No me lo podía creer.
Tuve que abandonarlo un momento para bailar claqué con el maestro.
Government will not solve the core problems of society. Your favored political candidate will not solve the root causes of the main problems in society. If you're voting for a savior you're doing it wrong.
Or as #Chesterton said,
“Political or economic reform will not make us good and happy, but until this odd period nobody ever expected that they would.”
More from GCK in the comments
Moar #Chesterton quotes, plox!
G.K. Chesterton, distributism, communitarianism and more
https://khanya.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/g-k-chesterton-distributism-communitarianism-and-more/
"Not only has #Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald #Trump, but the spin of Harris's coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump's coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative)."
Or as #Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy, "We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us."
The tattered cloak of the beggar will bear him up like the rayed plumes of the angels. But the kings in their heavy gold and the proud in their robes of purple will all of their nature sink downwards, for pride cannot rise to levity or levitation.
– GK Chesterton, from “Orthodoxy”
Loosely based on the #Chesterton's Fence #principle:
When reforming #software, as distinct from deforming it, there's a simple principle: If you encounter #code and don't understand its purpose, don't remove it. It is extremely likely there was a reason to write it. Until you understand that reason, you can't judge if it's reasonable. Some #programmers get over this difficulty by assuming their predecessors were fools; but if that's true, we'd have to conclude that stupidity runs in the family.
The Man Who Was Thursday - fun but old. #mastobooks #books #bookstodon #booksofmastodon #audiobook #audiobooks #review #reviews #philosophy #Chesterton https://www.ewafabian.pl/the-man-who-was-thursday-a-nightmare/
Conveni de col·laboració entre la #BiblioEpiscopal i el Centre d'Estudis i Documentació G. K. #Chesterton
https://bibliotecaepiscopalbcn.org/conveni-de-collaboracio-entre-la-bpeb-i-el-cedgkc/
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