The late philosopher G.K. Chesterton once received a letter from a man who asked, “What is wrong with the world?” The man expected to receive a brilliantly articulated reply. Instead, Chesterton wrote back and
What I Saw In America - What is America?G. K. ChestertonChesterton, G. K. "What I Saw in America." The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton XXI. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990. 35-264. Print.
Sam I’ll say a) blood type A. Neil OK, Sam, we’ll find out the answer later. As we’ve heard, blood is a big deal in Japan. Marnie Chesterton, from BBC World Service programme, CrowdScience, travelled to Tokyo where...
The filmThe Matrixcan be considered an allegory in the sense that it uses a hidden story to convey deeper meanings and themes. On the surface, the film is about a man named Neo who discovers that the world he knows is actually a simulation created by machines to control humanity. However,...
Some wish that she had tangled with them even more. John Simon, for instance, who says that Kael didn’t spar with him in print because “She felt it would make me more important than I am.” (The truth is that if Kael had felt Simon was important, shewouldhave sparred with him....
If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle 406 Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world ...
also don’t forget an exec summary in longer docs). Go meta. Step outside what you’re writing and be self-aware. “Sarah, this is an email where I tell you what I heard and you tell me if I’m headed in the right direction. Don’t be too polite with your feedback. I can ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton “When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.”― Sienna Miller “Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself.”― L. Wilder “To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best....
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. G.K. Chesterton Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson Advertisement Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the...
Again, I’m striving not to cite examples, because any careless imposition of change, in itself, prompts thoughts ofChesterton’s fence. The fence is a metaphor for anything inherited from previous generations. If we assume those who came before us were ignorant, unenlightened fools, far inferio...