13.2.11

Quotables from Chesterton

For the record, I liked Heretics better than Orthodoxy, though they are both very worthwhile reads. Here are a couple quotes, which I added to the Quotables page:


"We actually love ourselves more than we love joy."

"He says he is fleeing from his street because it is dull; he is lying. He is really fleeing from his street because it is a great deal too exciting. It is exciting because it is exacting; it is exacting because it is alive. He can visit Venice be cause to him the Venetians are only Venetians; the people in his own street are men."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

SO, if you're gonna write deep stuff at least throw a photo of Maggie in there to give us shallow thinkers something to remember....

Haidee said...

"We actually love ourselves more than we love joy." What a brilliant summary of the human struggle! Thanks for sharing!

I hope it's okay that I've just been following you all quietly on here--I've appreciated getting "introduced" a bit through your posts! Blessings! :)

The Drs. McLaughlin said...

Welcome Haidee! Likewise...