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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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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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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The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right it practically means being wrong
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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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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