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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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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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