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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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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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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
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Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
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The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right it practically means being wrong
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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