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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
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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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
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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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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
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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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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose 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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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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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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