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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.
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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Science boasts of the distance of its stars of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is At Hand.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
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I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
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We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
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