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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEducation is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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