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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
21+ Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
A curated collection of 21 inspirational quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
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"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
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"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
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"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."
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"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."
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"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
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"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."
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"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."
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"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."
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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."
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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."
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"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."
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
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"Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."