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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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