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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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 disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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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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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
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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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