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The supreme adventure is being BORN
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 past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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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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If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
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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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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
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The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The world will never starve for want of wonders but only for want of wonder.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
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Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
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The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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