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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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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.
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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
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