If you prefer the text, The Fallacy of Success. The phrasing seems a little formal and old to us, yet the idea is still spot on, one hundred years later. Many self-help books have the same faults today.
The text version has footnotes as well.
If you prefer the text, The Fallacy of Success. The phrasing seems a little formal and old to us, yet the idea is still spot on, one hundred years later. Many self-help books have the same faults today.
The text version has footnotes as well.
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"They are much more wild than the wildest romances of chivalry and much more dull than the dullest religious tract. Moreover, the romances of chivalry were at least about chivalry; the religious tracts are about religion. But these things are about nothing; they are about what is called Success.... [I]f you like to put it so, there is nothing that is not successful. That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey. Any live man has succeeded in living; any dead man may have succeeded in committing suicide."
This is Chesterton in his perfect register. I love it.
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