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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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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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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
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