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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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 sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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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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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings but they dream of being shepherds.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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A man cannot deserve adventures he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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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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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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