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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
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