The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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.
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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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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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