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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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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal and it is right for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.
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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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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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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.
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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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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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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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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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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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