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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
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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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
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Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.
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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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There is a case for telling the truth there is a case for avoiding the scandal but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
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