Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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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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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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