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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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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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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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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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