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Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.
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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Atheism is too theological.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.
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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
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