The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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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 Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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