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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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 aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.
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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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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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