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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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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Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.
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. . . For friendship implies individuality whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two but comrades are the better for being two million.
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Art is the signature of man.
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
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St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
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It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
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People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.
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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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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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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.
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