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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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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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Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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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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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.
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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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