Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA 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.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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