The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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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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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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