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Mike S
Because he himself bumps into a thing, he calls it the nearest obstacle; though the obstacle may happen to be the pillar that holds up the whole roof over his head.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
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.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“In love of home, the love of country has its rise” —Dickens
Education, learning, epistemology and for X
Dickens, The curiosity shop
Beach Scenes
I.
I stoop to hold small
weather-worn stone
sun-soaked till
warm as when first born,
no more alone.
poetry and gold and dross
political quadrants and how they relate to methods of coordination
But I do say, to start with, “What can we do for posterity, except deal fairly with our contemporaries?” Unless a man love his wife whom he has seen, how shall he love his child whom he has not seen?
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
‘Anyone,’ said the other, ‘except the Fools at the Top could of course have foreseen it from the word go.’
C. S. Lewis • The Dark Tower: And Other Stories
Dostoevsky said, “if man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing, he believes in anything.”
Ideologies, science, machines, entertainments: all are meant to take the place of meaningful and purposeful action in the spirit.
https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-end.pdf
(Matthew Rafael Johnson)