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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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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Atheism is too theological.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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