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Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.
— G.K. Chesterton
Tags: skepticism, mysticism, faith

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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
— G.K. Chesterton
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The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
— G.K. Chesterton What's Wrong with the World
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As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
— G.K. Chesterton
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That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.
— G.K. Chesterton
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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.
— G.K. Chesterton
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