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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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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
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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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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
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