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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
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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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
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I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
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In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.
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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
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