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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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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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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
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The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
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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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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.
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