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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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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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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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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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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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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.
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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
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. . . For friendship implies individuality whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two but comrades are the better for being two million.
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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.
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God is not a symbol of goodness goodness is a symbol of God
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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