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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a 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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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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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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.
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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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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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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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