The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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