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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
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Science boasts of the distance of its stars of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand.
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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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