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It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
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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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.
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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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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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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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To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.
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Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
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Theology is only thought applied to religion.
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
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