The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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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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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.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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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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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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