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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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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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