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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
English author & mystery novelist [more author details]
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on all men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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G. K. Chesterton, On Holland, Generally Speaking, 1928
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.
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G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
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G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
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G. K. Chesterton, Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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G. K. Chesterton, The Fad of the Fisherman (1922)
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
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G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3, 1910
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With the World; p. 118
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