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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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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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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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