#g k chesterton
my interpretation of “Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” – G.K. Chesterton
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Eastertide with Father Brown
(Handmade Soft Toy inspired by the character created by G K Chesterton)
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“The most ignorant of humanity know by the very look of earth that they have forgotten heaven.”
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(“God and Comparative Religion,” The Everlasting Man)
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“Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it.”
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(Illustrated London News, May 11, 1907)
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“The free man is not he who thinks all opinions equally true or false; that is not freedom but feeble-mindedness. The free man is he who sees the errors as clearly as he sees the truth.”
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(“The Bigot,” Lunacy and Letters)
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“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
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(“The Advantages of Having One Leg,” Tremendous Trifles)
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“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
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(“The Five Deaths of the Faith,” The Everlasting Man)
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“There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.”
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(“The Paradoxes of Christianity,” Orthodoxy)
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As an old-fashioned person, who still believes that Reason is a gift of God and a guide to truth, I must confine myself to saying that I do not want a God whom I have made, but a God who has made me.
#GKChesterton (Illustrated London News, December 31, 1932)
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The question is whether there are such things as the Rights of Man, as distinct from the Regulations of Mankind.
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(Illustrated London News, Nov. 4, 1933)
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