Soul of education
Saturday, July 26th, 2008 
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
GK chesterton
Archive for the ‘Quotes of the day’ Category
Democracy
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
GK Chesterton
Foundation of America
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
Living in the seasons
Monday, May 26th, 2008 
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Henry David Thoreau
Decadence
Monday, May 12th, 2008America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
Latin tea
Monday, April 14th, 2008 
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone”
Hilaire Belloc
Urban thoughts
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 
“The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.”
GK chesterton
Triumph of Quantity!
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Hilaire Belloc
Religion on history
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 
“Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.”
Hilaire Belloc
Tradition
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
Gk chesterton
