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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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Only poor men get hanged.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
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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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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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