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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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 have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.
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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.
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Humility is the mother of giants.
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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.
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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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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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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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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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