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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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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing the primary fact.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.
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