#or

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#ashamed #confess #i #i am #i do

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#away #essential #man #mere #ordinary

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#clearness #exult #invisibility #love #obscurity

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#certain #go #healthy #humiliation #morbidity

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#deadly #educated #educated people #education #horrible

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#daylight #does #man #monster #normal

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#history #know #make #nothing #people

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #away #corn #destroying #gods

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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