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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs and also so clever that they can manage each other's.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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