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Plato was right, but not quite right.
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 Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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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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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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