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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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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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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
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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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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
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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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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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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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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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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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