Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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