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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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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.
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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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