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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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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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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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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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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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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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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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.
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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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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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