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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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The only object of liberty is life.
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All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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