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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
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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It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
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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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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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