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All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
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 human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
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A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.
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No man knows he is young while he is young.
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Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.
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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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