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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
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 worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.
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You can't have the family farm without the family.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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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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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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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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