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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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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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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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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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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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