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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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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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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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