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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 whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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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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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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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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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
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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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There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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