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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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Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
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It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.
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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.
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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
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Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
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Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
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