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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Politics
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Intelligence
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Education
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. Education
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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. Art
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Art
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
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.
By Gilbert K. Chesterton