One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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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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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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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.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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 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 chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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