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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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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles it was a miraculous world.
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
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Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
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I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.
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The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
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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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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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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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The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
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