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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
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The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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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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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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The only object of liberty is life.
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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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