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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Men Secret Sublime
One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Love Trust Way World
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Believe Country Government People
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny