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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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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Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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