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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
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Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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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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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.
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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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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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