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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Architecture is the alphabet of giants it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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