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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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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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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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