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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
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If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.
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The true object of human life is play.
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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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