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Every man is important if he loses his lifeand every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
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 Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal and it is right for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
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It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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We are talking about an artist and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.
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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.
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If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are
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