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Orthodoxy

by G.K. Chesterton

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“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: orthodoxy, oscar-wilde, sunsets

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“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
― Rumi

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“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

tags: facts, farce, georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, hegel, history, history-repeats-itself

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“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics: The Annotated

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