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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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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 main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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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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