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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
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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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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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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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
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. . . For friendship implies individuality whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two but comrades are the better for being two million.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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The moderns do not realize modernity.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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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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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
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