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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
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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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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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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The aim of life is appreciation there is no sense in not appreciating things and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.
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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
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A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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