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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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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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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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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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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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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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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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