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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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My brain and this world don't fit each other and there's an end of it.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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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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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
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Man is always something worse or something better than an animal and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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