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It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them
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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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.
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Government has become ungovernable that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Whatever the word great means, Dickens was what it means.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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