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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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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 free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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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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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity for the world denied Christ's.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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