Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
quote by G.K. Chesterton
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Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits.
G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy
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There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
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"My country, right or wrong", is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying: "My mother, drunk or sober."
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A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
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Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.
G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy
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A Broad Minded Bishop Rebukes The Verminous St. Francis
If Brother Francis pardoned Brother Flea,
There still seems need of such strange charity,
Seeing he is, for all his gay goodwill,
Bitten by funny little creatures still.
poem by G.K. Chesterton
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