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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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 implication. It is not the things you say which children respect when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.
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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Humility is the mother of giants.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
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It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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