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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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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I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word and is used so as to curry favour even with those who would first recoil from its real meaning. The proceeding these quack doctors recommend does not control any birth.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The Devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.
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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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