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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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