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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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