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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been exactly reversed.
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 have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
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