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God is not a symbol of goodness goodness is a symbol of God
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 a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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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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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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