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“The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton — Download Open image

“The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to…

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his…

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as…

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Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

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Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

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Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would…

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Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

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Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is…

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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still…

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The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden…

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“World is so beautiful, but alas! There are so many assholes.”

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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will…

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