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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
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 great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.
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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
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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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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
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Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad, replied Syme with perfect calm but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
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In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.
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I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
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Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
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The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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