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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
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No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.
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Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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