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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.
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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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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God is not a symbol of goodness goodness is a symbol of God
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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
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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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