The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEducation 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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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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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