Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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