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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
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 whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.
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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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