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A review by kellsway
What's Wrong with the World by G.K. Chesterton
4.0
Quotes that resonated with me.
I am quite ready to respect another man's faith; but it is too much to ask that I should respect his doubt, his worldly hesitations, and fictions, his political bargain, and make-believe.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith). What's Wrong with the World (p. 23). Kindle Edition.
The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already covered with illegible scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulent as humanity. And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm because they are afraid to look back.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith). What's Wrong with the World (pp. 39-40). Kindle Edition.
But of all the modern notions generated by mere wealth, the worst is this: the notion that domesticity is dull and tame. Inside the home (they say) is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith). What's Wrong with the World (p. 84). Kindle Edition.
I am quite ready to respect another man's faith; but it is too much to ask that I should respect his doubt, his worldly hesitations, and fictions, his political bargain, and make-believe.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith). What's Wrong with the World (p. 23). Kindle Edition.
The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already covered with illegible scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulent as humanity. And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm because they are afraid to look back.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith). What's Wrong with the World (pp. 39-40). Kindle Edition.
But of all the modern notions generated by mere wealth, the worst is this: the notion that domesticity is dull and tame. Inside the home (they say) is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety.
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith). What's Wrong with the World (p. 84). Kindle Edition.