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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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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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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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