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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
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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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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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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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.
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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
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There is a case for telling the truth there is a case for avoiding the scandal but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
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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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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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