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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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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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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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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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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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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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