Design
We know the meaning of all the myths. We know the last secret revealed to the perfect initiate. And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying ‘These things are.’ It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying, ‘Why cannot these things be?’
from The Everlasting Man (with linked TOC) by G. K. Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 1mo ago
he is a poet in this real sense, that he has realised the meaning of every function he has performed.
from The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] by G. K. Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 1mo ago
It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols.
from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 1mo ago
For the meaning of woods is the combination of energy with complexity. A forest is not in the least rude or barbarous; it is only dense with delicacy.
from The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] by G. K. Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 1mo ago
For progress by its very name indicates a direction; and the moment we are in the least doubtful about the direction, we become in the same degree doubtful about the progress.
from Heretics by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 2mo ago
Whether there is a long-run direction in evolution, and whether that direction is to be considered progress are of course two different questions.
from The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon
Michael Schaffner added 2mo ago
The only intelligible sense that progress or advance can have among men, is that we have a definite vision, and that we wish to make the whole world like that vision.
from Orthodoxy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 2mo ago
It is obvious, of course, that a permanent ideal is absolutely necessary to anything like progress or reform. You cannot reform what is eternally formless; and you cannot march towards what is always moving about.
from The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] by G. K. Chesterton
Michael Schaffner added 2mo ago