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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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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
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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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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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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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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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