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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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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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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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