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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
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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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.
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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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