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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
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 one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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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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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
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Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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