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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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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.
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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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Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
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Only poor men get hanged.
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
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The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
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