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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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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
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It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex they can breed thoughts.
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Faith is always at a disadvantage it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
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Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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