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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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 home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.
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The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right it practically means being wrong
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Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right
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