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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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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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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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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