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. CHESTERTONThere are some desires that are not desirable.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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 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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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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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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