Amizoso lembrete periódico de que Chesterton era hopepunk:

«Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is (...) the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.»

#fantasy #fantasia #Chesterton #hopepunk

One of the most anti-advertisement heavy hitters I've read.

#chesterton #adblock #advertising #marketing [found it as a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36537564]

"No digo que echaría abajo la estatua, ya que soy adverso a todas las formas de trabajo manual prolongado, pero sí afirmo que tendría un argumento razonable contra eso".

Senzillament meravellós, treball manual perllongat.

#Chesterton dixit

"Hay personas que piensan que es incorrecto conducir asnos o comer conejos: yo no soy una de ellas."

#Chesterton dixit

"La tradición, me parece, es simplemente la democracia de los muertos".

#Chesterton dixit.

Der intelligente Reformer

Warum es gut sein kann, lieber zwei Mal nachzudenken, bevor man eine bestehende Regel ändert oder eine Tradition abschafft.

#Chesterton

Schönes Diskussionsmaterial

https://youtu.be/JFO8-O3fYW8

Bad government, like good government, is a spiritual thing. Even the tyrant never rules by force alone; but mostly by fairy tales. And so it is with the modern tyrant, the great employer. The sight of a millionaire is seldom, in the ordinary sense, an enchanting sight: nevertheless, he is in his way an enchanter.

As they say in the gushing articles about him in the magazines, he is a fascinating personality. So is a snake. At least he is fascinating to rabbits; and so is the millionaire to the rabbit-witted sort of people that ladies and gentlemen have allowed themselves to become.

He[#Billionaire] does, in a manner, cast a spell, such as that which imprisoned princes and princesses under the shapes of falcons or stags. He has truly turned men into sheep, as Circe turned them into swine.
-G K Chesterton
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Utopia of Users (1917) #FairyTales #Story #Magic #History #Stuck #Oligarchy #Fascinated #Lies @GKCDaily #Chesterton #Quote

The truth is that no other age except the nineteenth century (and perhaps our little bit of the twentieth) ever did regard its own dress and habits as ugly and undignified.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Source: All Is Grist (1931)
#Modern #Medieval #Renaissance #Antiquity #History #Chesterton #Quotes

They were not content with the natural sympathy we all have with such natural feelings; they really gave to them the supremacy of supernatural feelings — and (what is the real point) the only supernatural feelings. They did not use the coarse cant of our day; but they did, in fact, make Sex the supreme end of life for its own sake — in which they were much less sensible than the common or garden flowers. They therefore missed the whole meaning of Dante,
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#Dante #Poetry #Chesterton #Quotes

Having figured as ruthless realists sweeping all spiritual visions like cobwebs out of the sky, they then suddenly became extravagant sentimentalists over some of the common or garden flowers they found growing naturally out of the earth.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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Source: All Is Grist (1931)
#Rational #Realist #Spiritual #Thinking #Feeling #Ruthless #Sentimental #Modern #Chesterton #Dante #Quotes

Dante is drawn as a dark and bitter spirit; but in fact he wrote the only one of the great epics that really has a happy ending.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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Source: All Is Grist (1931)
#Wisdom #Story #Epic #Poetry #Poet #Happy #Hope #Chesterton #Dante #Quotes

You cannot have a successful club without rules; but a family will really do without any rules exactly in proportion as it is a successful family.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: On Household Gods and Goblins (1922)
#OddProverbs #Wisdom #Family #Story #Author #Chesterton #Thoughts #Quotes

Now, I for one detest Imperialism, but I have a great deal of sympathy with Jingoism. And there seemed something so touching about this unbroken and innocent bragging... It is so obvious and so jolly to be optimistic about England, especially when you are an optimist—and an Englishman.
--G K Chesterton

Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
#CorruptedInnocence #Jingoism #Imperialism #History #England #StateOfDemocracy #Journalism #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes

There are only two kinds of social structure conceivable-- personal government and impersonal government. If my anarchic friends will not have rules--they will have rulers.
--G K Chesterton

Source: What's Wrong with the World (1910)
#TradeOffs #Government #Anarchy #Organization #OrganizationalDevelopmentv #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes

There is an English country that the Imperialists have never found. The British Empire may annex what it likes, it will never annex England. It has not even discovered the island, let alone conquered it.
-G K Chesterton

Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
#Home #Safe #Empire #England #Imperialism #Discernment #Love #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes

#Libros #Citas #Literatura #Literaverso #Escritores #Writer #Cultura #Literaverso #Philosophy #Quotes #Bookstodon #Book #BooksOfMastodon #Chesterton

Loco no es el que ha perdido la razón, sino el que lo ha perdido todo, todo menos la razón.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Orthodoxy (Ortodoxia), 1908

@lcrespom
I'd rather prefer quoting #Chesterton: "Too much #capitalism does not mean too many #capitalists, but #tooFewCapitalists."
@ramin_hal9001 @pluralistic

We do not want a #church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
- G.K. #Chesterton
#quote

#EelRent exploration! at https://historiacartarum.org/eel-rents-project/english-eel-rents-10th-17th-centuries/

#Sudbury in 1086 owed rent of 100 #eels to Henry de Ferrers.

#Chesterton near #Cambridge c.1250 owed 1,000 eels to its vicarage.

#Lakenheath in 1020 owed 4,000 eels to the Abbey at #BuryStEdmunds. In 1315 it instead owed 4,300 eels to the #EarlOfGloucester - but the last earl had just died at the Battle of #Bannockburn. His widow claimed to be pregnant with an heir - so probably took delivery of the eels?

#medieval #medievodons @medievodons

Peter Howarth · Rejoicings in a Dug-Out: Cecil, Ada and G.K. #Chesterton ⁦‪@LRB‬⁩ 15 December 2022. Fine review of Richard Ingram’s biography of Chesterton, whose #antisemitism is disturbing. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n24/peter-howarth/rejoicings-in-a-dug-out