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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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Women are the only realists their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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