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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.
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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here, repeating itself eternally.
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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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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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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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