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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Art Brain Spiritual
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Goes Intelligent Trying
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Cleanliness Essential Next
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Artist Wisdom Wise
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Life Men Principles
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Half Literature Mean
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Doctrine Sin Year
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Morality People Scandal
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Book Hero Read
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Catholic Discipline Wall
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Beauty Broken Heart
When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Failure Trouble World
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Christian Orthodoxy Sin
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Boat Same Seasick
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Modern Silence Tyranny
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Beautiful Girl Love