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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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 do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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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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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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Art is the signature of man.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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