Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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