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#1

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

2963 likes

#2

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: gullibility

1185 likes

#3

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives

1144 likes

#4

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books-reading

7324 likes

#5

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
― C.S. Lewis

4290 likes

#6

“Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: c-s-lewis

776 likes

#7

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

3827 likes

#8

“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: inspirational-humor

515 likes

#9

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: philosophy

379 likes

#10

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: humor, ignorance, knowledge, wisdom

180 likes

#11

“Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Christendom in Dublin

146 likes

#12

“My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

tags: new-york, no-maj, screenplay, wand, wizard

88 likes

#13

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7183 likes

#14

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: political

1576 likes

#15

“Sanity is not statistical.”
― George Orwell, 1984

765 likes

#16

“You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

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#17

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

4472 likes

#18

“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it it really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Club of Queer Trades

tags: new-atheism, philosophy, science

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