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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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