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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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There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
Gilbert K. Chesterton
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
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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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It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The test of happiness is gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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