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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.
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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
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