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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
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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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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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.
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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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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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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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