Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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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…
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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You never loved your friends, my friends,
As I pre-loved my foes
#HandMeDownASongOrPoem
#LastHero
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You never loved your friends, my friends,
As I shall love my foes.
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#NoEffort
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Interesting analysis of Dorothy Day and G.K. Chesterton's writings on gratitude, exploring how both thinkers viewed appreciation as a starting point rather than a conclusion. The commentary examines their belief that genuine gratitude opens pathways to deeper spiritual and intellectual engagement with the world. #DorothyDay #GKChesterton #CatholicIntellectuals #Gratitude #Philosophy #SocialJustice
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/dorothy-day-chesterton-gratitude
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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Useless quote for 20 Apr:
"They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind."
~ G. K. Chesterton, "The Poet and the Lunatics" (1929)
The wind blew out from Boardwalk from the dawning to the day.
#MonopolyASongOrPoem
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#TheLastHero
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
-- G. K. Chesterton
The review, by #JohnPsmith of #RossDouthat's new book defending #religion, quotes #GKChesterton:
"The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them it is you rationalists who refuse actual evidence being constrained to do so by your creed."
(#Miracles are only a small section of the review, but it's suitable for short extracts.)
3/3
Didn't know Chesterton (Father Brown) had a novel set in the future (more alternative reality?), but @gutenberg_org has it here😍
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/20058
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Holding out for a Last Hero
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#BonnieTyler
The heavens are bowed about my head, shouting like seraph wars,
With rains that might put out the sun and clean the sky of stars,
Rains like the fall of ruined seas from secret worlds above,
The roaring of the rains of God none but the lonely love.
The wind blew out Limburger from the dawning to the day,
There was a wreck of trees and fall of towers a score of miles away,
And drifted like a livid leaf I go before its tide,
Spewed out of house and stable, beggared of flag and bride.
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” – G.K. Chesterton
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Today's poem:
The Donkey
- by G. K. Chesterton
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/771929395228180480/the-donkey?source=share
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