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You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!
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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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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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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A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.
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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.
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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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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
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We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.
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