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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
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The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
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The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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It is the decisive people who have become civilised it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.
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Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
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