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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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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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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 Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
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Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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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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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.
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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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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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