Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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