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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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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex they can breed thoughts.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
