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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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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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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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