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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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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.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
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What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.
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It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.
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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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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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Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
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