The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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