New: chestertonAll contenthive-129948hive-196917krzzanhive-183959hive-180932steemhive-185836photographyhive-166405uncommonlabbitcoinhive-150122hive-144064hive-183397hive-145157hive-188619lifehive-109690hive-139150krsuccesshive-124908hive-184714hive-153970cryptoTrendingNewHotLikershelices (30)in evils • 4 years agoPolitics 0199Men don't differ much about what things they call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they call excusable #GKChestertonkwilley (61)in steempress • 5 years agoReflections on Aphorisms #60I've been keeping up with this as a daily thing for two months now. It's given me a great opportunity to know myself better, but it's also helped me process what I've learned and what other people…helices (30)in imagination • 5 years agoLiterature 0229The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange #GKChestertonkwilley (61)in steempress • 5 years agoReflections on Aphorisms #42After a day of dubious productivity, sometimes the best you can do is resolve to be better the next day. Today was one of those days. I'm hoping to get some good sleep and make sure to get a walk…real2offendisok (48)in dtube • 5 years agoDistributism ExplainedUnfortunately this nearly perfect system based on Christian Charity has never existed post-industry. Overview: Follow me: YouTube: Twitter - Bitchute - Gab - Minds - Parler -…kwilley (61)in steempress • 5 years agoReflections on Aphorisms #3Just one aphorism today, because one of the ones I looked over I couldn't really come up with a good response to. Feel free to check out yesterday's reflections. Aphorism 4 "Self is the Gorgon.…helices (30)in eye • 5 years agoLiterature 0189There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect #GKChestertonveteran (55)in quote • 6 years agoG.K. Chesterton“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ― G.K. Chestertondavid-shane (25)in science • 6 years agoChesterton, Science, and fooling ourselvesWas reminded today of some of G.K. Chesterton's comments about science in Orthodoxy - especially the way we like to fool ourselves. I'm rephrasing a bit but - I drop a ball, it falls to the…david-shane (25)in christianity • 6 years agoChesterton on goodness and evil in the world"... But every man feels in his heart that none of these three paper plans is like life; that none of these worlds is one in which he can live. Something tells him that the ultimate idea of the…david-shane (25)in christianity • 6 years agoG.K. Chesterton on Socrates v. Christ"No two things could possibly be more different than the death of Socrates and the death of Christ. We are meant to feel that the death of Socrates was, from the point of view of his friends at…helices (30)in madmen • 6 years agoLiterature 069Materialists & madmen never have doubts #GKChestertonricardogoncalves (48)in life • 6 years agoQuote of The Day - Advice"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." by G. K. Chesterton IMAGE Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an…dmt117 (25)in introduction • 6 years agoIntroductoryThe convention is to write a post introducing yourself. I've been struggling with an approach to doing that. I could write about my life - where I've been, what I've done, but that's a long way…dmt117 (25)in philosophy • 6 years agoChesterton and Original SinFrom the introduction to "The Defendant" in the collection of essays In Defense of Sanity : This is the great fall, the fall by which the fish forgets the sea, the ox forgets the meadow, the…prescottpaul (53)in quotes • 6 years agoGood Quotes, Chapter 3“There is in each of us a shadow-self, and a real-self. The shadow-self seeks only its own will and pleasure. The more we keep the sun behind us, the greater the length of the shadow, the less…taher999 (43)in g • 7 years ago"There are two way to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."helices (30)in great • 7 years agoLeadership 001There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great #GKChestertonprescottpaul (53)in quotes • 7 years agoGood Quotes, Chapter 2“We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. What we want is a religion that is right where we are wrong. In these current fashions it is not really a question of the religion…prescottpaul (53)in quotes • 7 years agoGood Quotes, Chapter 1"THE fact that a chaotic and ill-educated time cannot clearly grasp the truth does not alter the fact that it always will be the truth." ~G.K. Chesterton: 'Illustrated London News,' 3/23/29…
