The chief object of education is not to learn things But to unlearn things.
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In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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The thing I hate about an argument is it always interrupts a discussion.
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A good civilization spreads over us like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilization stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella artificial, mathematical in shape not merely universal, but uniform.
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