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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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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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The true object of human life is play.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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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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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
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If I think the universe is triangular, and you think it is square, there cannot be room for two universes. We may argue politely, we may argue humanely, we may argue with great mutual benefit: but, obviously, we must argue.
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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
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