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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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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls but they are the walls of a playground.
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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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Whatever the word great means, Dickens was what it means.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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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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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas he will not see that one must pay for an idea as well as for anything else. He will have them all at once in one wild intellectual harem, no matter how much they quarrel and contradict each other.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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The eagle has no liberty he only has loneliness.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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