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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?
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All things are from God and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.
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There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.
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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.
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The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
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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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