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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
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 past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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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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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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