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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

G.K. Chesterton

Stichwörter: freedom rules laws personal-autonomy responsibilities

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Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

G.K. Chesterton

Stichwörter: humor religion leibniz watchmaker

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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

G.K. Chesterton

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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.

G.K. Chesterton

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

G.K. Chesterton

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