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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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 pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
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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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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
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Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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