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Life is not an illogicality yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden its wildness lies in wait.
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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The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
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A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.
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