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. CHESTERTONI don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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 Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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