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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard 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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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
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Fairy tales are more than true.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
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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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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Surprise is the secret of joy.
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It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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