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 is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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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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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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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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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