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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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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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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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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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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
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The true object of human life is play.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
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