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Art is the signature of man.
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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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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You can't have the family farm without the family.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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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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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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