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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 beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
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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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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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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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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
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The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts its happy tales are of broken heads.
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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.
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