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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. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
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With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
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Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at leastCocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.
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Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
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Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.
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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.
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The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
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There is no bigot like the atheist.
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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The simplification of anything is always sensational.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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