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. CHESTERTONScience must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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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 are some desires that are not desirable.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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 chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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