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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
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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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal and it is right for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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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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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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