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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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 professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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If a man says that he is Jesus Christ, it is no answer to tell him that the world denies his divinity for the world denied Christ's.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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