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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
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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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When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.
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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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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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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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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
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