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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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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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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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
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Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.
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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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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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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 is the decisive people who have become civilised it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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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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