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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich and benefits nobody else.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
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