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G K Chesterton
The chief object...
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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The artistic temperament...
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having...
Art, like morality,...
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Source: Orthodoxy,...
One sees great...
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Source: The...
The way to...
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Source: In Correct...
A man can...
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
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Psychoanalysis is confession...
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Source:
-- G K Chesterton,...
The Christian ideal...
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left...
The word good...
The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards,...
Courage is almost...
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to...
One sees great...
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
Source:...
Tolerance is the...
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Source:
-- G K...
The gallows in...
The gallows in my garden, people say,
Is new and neat and adequately tall.
The worst of...
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
People generally quarrel...
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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-- G K Chesterton,...
The right kind...
The right kind of monarchy is one where everybody goes about with the permanent conviction that the king can do no...
Truths turn into...
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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-- G K...
In matters of...
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you...
To be simple...
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being...
The present condition...
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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-- G K Chesterton,...