The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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 generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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A 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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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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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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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