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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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 ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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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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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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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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Humility is the mother of giants.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
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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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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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