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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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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Progress is the mother of problems.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
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