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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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 difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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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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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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