An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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I 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
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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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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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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