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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something but you can be discontented with everything.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.
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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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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
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I believe in preaching to the converted for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
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Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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