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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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 function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
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The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
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The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.
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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.
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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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Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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