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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.
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 more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.
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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right it practically means being wrong
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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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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Surprise is the secret of joy.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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