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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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