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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.
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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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
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Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
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Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
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Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.
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A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.
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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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Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
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