“There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.”
“There are only two kinds of ballads. There are sad ballads about broken hearts and cheerful ballads about broken heads.” – The Voice of Shelley, Apostle and the Wild Ducks
luuuulz
“Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.” – Orthodoxy
“The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”
maybe the old recipe is still there
“It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) of succeeding. One is by doing very good work, the other is by cheating.”
“There are two ways of dealing with the dignity, the pain, the prejudice or the rooted humour of the poor; especially of the rural poor. One of them is to see in their tragedy only a stark simplicity, like the outline of a rock; the other is to see in it an unfathomable though a savage complexity, like the labyrinthine complexity of a living forest.”
“There are two ways in which a man may vanish – through being thoroughly conquered or through being thoroughly the Conqueror. . . For a man may vanish as Chaos vanished in the face of creation, or he may vanish as God vanished in filling all things with that created life.”
“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.” – Heretics, 1905
“It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.”
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” – Orthodoxy
“There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.”
“Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .”
“Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.” – What I Saw In America
“It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men – so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. “I say God is One,” and “I say God is One but also Three,” that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.” – The New Hypocrite, What’s Wrong with the World
came with the off switch
“The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.” – The Free Man, A Miscellany of Men
“A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.”
“The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.”
any pizza13 planefags?
activate laundry lady
propane
“Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.” – What I Saw In America, 1922
“The only object of liberty is life.” – Irish Impressions p. 219
potatoes are good
“Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.” – G.K.’s Weekly, April 28, 1928
“The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.” – G.K.’s Weekly, August 18, 1928
“It is assumed that the sceptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of scepticism.”
“Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.” – The Common Man