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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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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
Gilbert K. Chesterton
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no bigot like the atheist.
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