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No man can be merry unless he is serious.
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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At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, Life is not worth living. We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.
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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
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It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
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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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