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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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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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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.
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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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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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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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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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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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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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