“When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a laborer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.”
Pascal Pensées
“Any man with a large mind ought to be able to write about anything.”
G.K. Chesterton in “What Is Right With The World” quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
“Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.”
“Orthodoxy, by Gilbert K. Chesterton; The Maniac Page 1” according to https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/81231/what-was-g-k-chestertons-proof-of-original-sin-and-what-is-so-unique-about-it
“fairy land arouses [in the child] a longing for he knows not what.”
C.S. Lewis quoted by David W. Fagerberg in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 17 #1 (9-10/13)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say it would actually be desirable for the CBC to drop its threadbare pretense at neutrality, provided it also gives up its subsidy and sees whether there’s a significant audience that actually wants full-bore wokeness.
“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”
La Rochefoucauld, quoted in Globe & Mail October 18, 1999
“[T]he absorption of the man and the exclusion of other matters show not how dull the subject is, but how fascinating it is. Because a man refuses to come out of Eden, they assume that he is being detained in gaol.”
G.K. Chesterton on absorption in apparently trivial hobbies, in “A Defence of Bores,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
Confucius, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go