Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
architecture art
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
art
A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything
content man art
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.
french art
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
government
All government is an ugly necessity.
necessity government
Bosh, he said, On what else is the whole world run but immediate impressions? What is more practical? My friend, the philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.
philosophy business
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
mistakes business
failure men theend
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
man theend
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
opposition theend
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
change
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
change man
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
thetimes time
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
man thetimes time
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