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Letter "G" » G. K. Chesterton Quotes
«Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
education, instructed, instructing, instructs, period, somebody
«Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.»
«Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
generation, one generation, passe, passes, society
«People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
argue, generally, quarrel, quarreled, quarreling
«Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.»
«Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.»
«Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Christianity, difficult, has-been, tried, wanting
«Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.»
«Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.»
«Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Religion
| Keywords:
mystery, rationalize, rationalized
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