Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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 are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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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 Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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