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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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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There are no new ideas about female education.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity for the world denied Christ's.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
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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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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
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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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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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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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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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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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