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Puritanism was an honourable mood it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
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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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
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There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
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The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree the poetry of love in following the single woman the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.
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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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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
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I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.
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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, Life is not worth living. We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
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