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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
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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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Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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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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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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