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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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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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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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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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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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