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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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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
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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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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
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A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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The true object of human life is play.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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