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We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.
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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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
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The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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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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