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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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