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Instead Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up…
- Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
- Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.…
- The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not…
- I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and…
- What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there…
- 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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