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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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 human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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Plato was right, but not quite right.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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The true object of human life is play.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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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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