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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.
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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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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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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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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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Progress is the mother of problems.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.
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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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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
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Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.
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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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