#or

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#foot #foreign #foreign land #land #last

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cruelty #equals #feel #injustice #kind

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#honest #never #never forget #poor #poverty

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

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