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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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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.
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A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.
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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
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It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.
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Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
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One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.
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Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.
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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
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The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.
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