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There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.
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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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
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Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.
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A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
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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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We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
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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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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
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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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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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The true object of human life is play.
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(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
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Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
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Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.
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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
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We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.
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A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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