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Gilbert K. Chesterton

"If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not."

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"If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not."

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

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"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."
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"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."
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"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."
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