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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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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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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Government has become ungovernable that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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Comradeship is obvious and universal and open but it is only one kind of affection it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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