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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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 atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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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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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
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Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
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It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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