Thanks to Frank J. over at IMAO.us for quoting G.K. Chesterton.
I’ve added lots of his quotes to my random quote string, so you’ll be seeing more of him later.
Anyway, Chesterton wrote a lot of cool stuff. When I get some time (say next year?) I’m gonna look into buying some of his books. It looks like the only way to purchase his work is in compiled volumes; which is fine…it just means I have to find a list and figure out which ones are worth buying because some of his stuff I don’t care to read (some of the critiques, etc.).
You should read a little bit about him. He’s really a cool guy.
“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.” - Broadcast talk 6-11-35
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” - Everlasting Man, 1925
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” - ILN, 4/19/30
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.” - ILN 11-7-08
“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.” - “Charles II” Twelve Types
“There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.” - ILN, 7/18/08
For a fellow that died in 1936 he has some useful and current insights.