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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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Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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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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