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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
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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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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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There are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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