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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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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The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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