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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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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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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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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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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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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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