The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]

For all the real virtue in contentment evaporates, when the contentment is only satisfaction and the satisfaction is only self-satisfaction.

They did it wrong, not through superstition, not through fanatical exaggeration, not through provincial ignorance, but through pure, profound, internal, intellectual incompetence; that intellectual incompetence which so often goes with intellectual pride.

Nobody has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals.

What can we do now? Well, there's a

whole lot of things really. We can begin the work of limiting the damage we do to nature and that's, of course, the obvious one and is underway in many very good organisations and human beings in the world today. But I think we also need to reestablish some sense of who we are and what we're doing here. And I thin