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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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 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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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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