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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
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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 crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
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