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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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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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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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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
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