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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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 must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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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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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
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